What we are!

“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1 NIV).

  Do we really grasp what we have been given?  We are children of God because of Jesus Christ our Lord.  We have been given everything from the riches of heaven.  We are heirs in His kingdom and cannot be displaced or separated from Him as His child.

    Children of rich and poor, struggle from the opposite ends of the spectrum with the inheritance and legacy they have in their relationship with their parents.  Children of the rich often struggle because they do not think they have been given enough materially when the reality often shouts of their lack of responsibility, self-control and wasteful lifestyle.  Children of the poor often struggle because they literally have not be given enough materially.  Yet sometimes the children of the poor end up with the greater gift of deeper and substantial character in the way they might live and more grateful for any gifts that come their way.

    We are poor in ourselves but we have all become children of God and heirs because of Christ to the great inheritance of riches in grace in our relationship with Him.  We can rest assured; we will be given abundance in things that are needed not only to sustain us but to make us into His workmanship bringing glory to Him as His children.

We can know we have a Father loving us more dearly than we can ever imagine. No matter what we face, endure and go through in whatever realm, we have in Christ abundantly more than we need to be victorious over it by the constant power and presence of the Holy Spirit .   We have been given a relationship and inheritance beyond our understanding.  Rejoice in it, treasure it, be ever aware and thankful for it and live fully as the child of God as that is what we are!    

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father!’ (Romans 8:14-15 KJV).

Suggested Bible Reading Romans 8 & 1 John 3