People gave you a nickname. God gave you a name. Only one of them is permanent.

Nicknames stick because they are handed out in front of an audience, and some are affectionate while others are a small ongoing insult you learned to laugh at. God’s naming of you does not depend on a room or a year or how the group chat feels. One of those you will still be carrying in twenty years.

When a label starts to feel like a description, ask who gave it to you and what they had riding on it. Take the name God gives you more seriously than the one that stuck in year nine. Answer to the permanent one.