OWNED!

We all want to feel wanted, to feel like we belong.

We were having communion one Sunday at church about 10 years ago now. It was towards the end of the service, after the sermon, and I wasn't on the music team that Sunday so I was sitting out in the congregation with my family on the right side that faced the stage. Communion has always been a solemn time for me, since the Word tells us to examine ourselves before taking it, to see if we're right with the Lord.

We took the bread and I thanked Jesus with my whole heart for His body that was beaten and broken for my healing - physical and mental.

When the grape juice came we all waited and drank at the same time. I thanked Jesus for shedding His blood so all my sins could be forgiven and washed away. I felt very close to Him, and then I heard in my spirit "You are Mine!" Out of nowhere that thought/sound just came. It's hard to describe, but I felt Jesus was saying that He claimed me as His own.

What a feeling of security... wow. I just sat there for a second, oblivious to what was going on, just soaking it in. Then I thanked Him for making me His.

Jesus said "... do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." To know that we are His.

There's a song I love that is about being His - "I Am Yours" by Casting Crowns.
Watch and listen to it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_rTX23V7Q&feature=related


and thank Him that because of what HE'S done, you are His.