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Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you.

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I have summoned you by name.

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You are mine.

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Isaiah 43.1.

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When you hear the word command, what do you feel?

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For a lot of us, it sounds like pressure.

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Another thing to get right, another standard to live up to,

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and perhaps another opportunity for us to fall short.

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But what if God's commands aren't about creating pressure

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to remind us who we are not?

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What if they are invitations to remind us

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who we are in him?

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Isaiah 43.1 is not a to-do list.

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It's an identity statement.

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Do not be afraid.

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Why?

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It's not your name.

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It's not who you are, because I have redeemed you.

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I have called you by name.

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You are mine.

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God doesn't command you to toil,

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trying to do it all by the sweat of your own brow.

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He invites you to trust, to trust him.

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You are redeemed.

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You are called by name.

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You are his.

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That's not pressure, and that's not a pep talk

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to get you to try harder today.

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It's an invitation to believe

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and live from what's already true about you.