Devotion for Today

The Real You

January 20, 2013

For he knoweth our frame . . .
–Psalm 103:14

It is significant that our first astronauts, while being trained for their moon flights, were required to give twenty answers to the query, “Who are you?” Take the same test yourself. When you have made your list and run out of things to add, ask yourself if you have truly answered. Do you really know who you are? Scientists agree that our desperate search leads all humans to seek heroes and to imitate others, to “paste bits and pieces of other people on ourselves.” We make love as some actor would. We play golf in the style of Jack Nicklaus. Part of this process is natural, for we learn by imitating others. The tragedy is that the person we assemble is not genuine. “Who am I?” you cry as you roam the world looking for yourself. Consider this: there are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Prayer for the day

Lord, help me to break through the façade and know myself as You do.

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35 Comments

Virtuous says 1.21.2013, 05:35 a.m.

Im soo grateful for this opportunity to write on this page; I thank God for the life of Billy Graham and for allowing God to use you. My prayer is for the LORD to bless me.with the zeal you have to evangelize. Bless you and your family. JESUS REIGNS!

Paul says 1.20.2013, 6:28 p.m.

Thank you Jesus! For without you, I am so lost and dead.

m says 1.20.2013, 1:56 p.m.

Amen. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Ama says 1.20.2013, 1:27 p.m.

God have mercy on me and help me be the person I can be through Christ. That is the foundation I need. Amen

Wida says 1.20.2013, 1:20 p.m.

Thanks for today's devotional sayings. God be with you :)

Gerry says 1.20.2013, 09:43 a.m.

Thank God he is a God of patience. I know who I want to be but too often fail to achieve that goal. I believe he only expects my best effort . Even when I fall short of my goal he still loves and comforts me. His Love and Mercy sustain me.

Christine Haiyan Jin says 1.20.2013, 08:43 a.m.

Dear lord God of heaven and earth,Thank you for all of your kind acts, thank you for sending Heibei, now South China thy heavy snow for protection to the southern China, as Job book described. Jehovah's snow warfare to cease idol growth.

David Jr. says 1.20.2013, 08:04 a.m.

Through God's grace I am not who I used to be.

Greg says 1.20.2013, 06:09 a.m.

I know that I am not the same person I was before I knew Jesus as my personal Savior and now that I do there is not a moment in the day when I don't stop thinking about Him. I love the Lord for loving me and forgiving me for all I have done.

Janice says 1.20.2013, 04:42 a.m.

I'm not who people think I am, I'm not who I think I am, but I really want to be who God knows I am...please pray for me.

Cheri says 1.20.2013, 00:46 a.m.

Thank You Lord that You love us unconditionally, even though we fall short of your glory. Thank You for Your grace, mercy and truth in our lives!

Gerry says 2.5.2012, 07:02 a.m.

I am not who I was and I am not who I want to be but with God's, Forgiveness, Patience and Love, I'm sure I will get there.

Bryan says 1.22.2012, 10:35 p.m.

Hallelujah,Thank you Lord, for Billy being part of my life each day, in Jesus Name Amen

oldcarpenter says 1.20.2012, 7:38 p.m.

man you really hit the nail right on the head, God bless you!

Paula Dorris says 1.20.2012, 1:13 p.m.

I thank God for Billy Graham daily devotional we love you

shadrack says 1.20.2012, 12:43 a.m.

what we and others think we are all put together is far away from the truth;we are nothing without God.

Wanda says 1.20.2012, 11:30 a.m.

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for your love, grace and forgiveness again, as your child through Christ Jesus.

Richard Watson says 1.20.2012, 07:53 a.m.

I Praise God for His tender mercy to me. I am forgiven, but still a work in progress to become what He wants for me, and to do His Will in my life. My daily devotion many days come from BGEA and this one really blesses me. We need you BGEA.

karen says 1.20.2012, 07:17 a.m.

This is an enlightening and wonderful process to bring you closer to God. Encouraging, yet humbling. Brings you closer to prayer and asking Holy Spirit to guide you. Perseverance,to character to love. Thank you Jesus.

john says 1.20.2012, 07:16 a.m.

I'm grateful I have a Father who knows me better and believes the best is in me in Christ

Pamela says 1.20.2012, 06:32 a.m.

I'm living in the last years of my life and yet I know that I still need more refining like silver. I know that no matter who I am or what I think of myself that God can bring others to him through me if I am willing, and I am.

Doug says 1.20.2012, 06:31 a.m.

Thank you Jesus! ~ Just Thank you!!! I love you so much it hurts and I want more of your closeness help me love others more like you do! God bless all who come to this site. Help us grow in your love!

Franklyn says 1.20.2012, 06:29 a.m.

Uncle Graham, thank you for helping me realize far-off I was from what I was made and intended to be by my Creator and the need for me to come back like the prodigal son to Him. Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for opening your door to me again.

gracy says 1.20.2012, 05:43 a.m.

Lord I'm not as good as u made me but Lord help me to find out who I am in you.... I confess all my sins I re-surrender my life unto you....

Bennet says 1.20.2012, 05:41 a.m.

For the past days I have been asking and wanting to know who I am in Him. How do I react to Him and to those around me? I don't want to loss my true identity just to live as someone's prototype.God please help me know who I am and my purpose on earth

Annie says 1.20.2012, 01:08 a.m.

O LORD, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it (Psalms 139:1, 5-6). Holy Spirit, Show me my nothingness, Amen!

mick says 1.19.2012, 11:55 a.m.

WOW! I did not fully realize that I was a threesome! Imagine what we could change in our lives if we used each viewpoint as a direction.

Annie says 1.19.2012, 11:45 a.m.

The vessel that He made of clay was marred in the hand of the Potter: so He made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the Potter to make it (Jeremiah 18:4). Thank You LORD, You turn the ugliest thing in my life into a thing of Beauty...! Amen!

David says 1.20.2011, 10:02 p.m.

I know and like parts of me, and I deeply regret some of me. More than anything, I desire to walk and talk with my God and to share in his thoughts and his heart, and to be one with him, and live like him. Only God gives me the satisfaction and peace I crave, and only he fills what is otherwise left empty. I pray that God will remove the obstacles I erect to slow him from getting closer, and that with his help I can eventually walk as one with him, in this life and into the next.

sam says 1.20.2011, 11:10 a.m.

Pasting bits and pieces of Jesus on ourselves will be the ideal imitation to become a child of God.

nora says 1.20.2011, 10:20 a.m.

I am willing to do anything to have a life serving God and getting the love I need. i just want love. I ask God to make me whatever he wants.

Gerry says 1.20.2011, 08:16 a.m.

First and foremost I am a child of God. All other relationships or achievements in life pale by comparison. Thank you Lord.

Ricky says 1.20.2011, 05:40 a.m.

He knows the numbers of hairs on my head. He knows my name and it is written in the lambs book of life. He gives me his Word which is the manual to my life. I was created in their image Gen.1:26. Seek Jesus and learn who you really are and what you can become. I love you Lord Jesus. God bless you Billy Graham for this devotional.

Nokuthula Mkalipi says 1.20.2011, 01:03 a.m.

Honestly, we may think we know who we are but it's only until (at some point in life) we meet our Saviour that we would really know who we are. Because we are nothing, except in Him.

Christine Haiyan Jin says 1.19.2011, 02:59 a.m.

Dear Lord God Yaweh, Lord Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, Thank thee for having this opportunity for me to confess sins so that my somewhat Christ centered living could go on. Thank thee for all thy grace and salvation bestowed over thy unworthy of death sinner and thy child me, so that I can continue to serve thee, magnify thee and express thee glorify thee in an unworthy manner and at the same time rescue the perishing and care for the dying here in Shenzhen China. In the name of the true God I confess sins on behalf of the whole world and thank Him for all.