Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

YAM stands for you are mine. This is a famous and for many a favorite verse, with good reason.

Let us not forget what came first because this famous quote begins with “But now”.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!”

If they refuse to believe they are trapped they will not listen for a savior. If they do not know who they are they will not recognize their name when called.

Prisoner 145827 is not your name.

When we come to understand we have been redeemed, the freedom we enjoy does not teach us what it means when He declares “You are Mine!”

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

He is there to teach you all the things we do not know, especially what glory means and how to show it.

Romans 1:16

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Psalm 49:15

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

Psalm 68:35

Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

Ephesians 3:7

Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.

Colossians 2:12

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

It is when we believe we know a “thing” and search the scriptures that we are laid low by the vanity of belief not born by the faith that got us here to begin with.

1 Corinthians 8:2

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.