We are children of the Living God

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure.

1 John 3:1-3 (New Living Translation)

We call ourselves children of the Living God. Yes, that’s true. We indeed are children of the Living God. This world identifies us through our parents. Have we ever tried identifying us through our eternal parent, our Living God? Have we ever asked ourselves self-centred questions like what we are, what shall we be and what we should be? Like we inherit our parent's values, we are also urged to inherit God's values but we tend not to do so. Being our righteous parent, God has pre-planned our future and He gives an answer to these questions for all of us through His Word.

What we are: We are the children of our eternal Living God. We should thank God for giving us an identity as His children. This specific factor shows how great is His love that He has lavished on us, even us being sinners. We, being believers are the lucky chosen ones who are saved due to His righteousness. But the non-believers don't know about us being saved because they don't know His righteous love, amazing grace, eternal sacrifice. It's our duty being His children to save the lost lamb from destruction.

What shall we be: It is not yet known what we shall be but being children of God, it is evident that we shall be like him. Everyone believes the fact that God will reveal Himself during the Final Days of earth. It has been told that we will be like Him for we will get to see Him. This statement can lead to a misconception. It doesn't say that when we see God, the next moment we'll be like Him rather we as Christians practise certain morals and ethics in our everyday life rendering us to be like Him. Everything doesn't take place all of a sudden. The entire process of Creation wasn't all of a sudden. It took six days and on the seventh day God rested. It is during the last days that we will get to see God just because of all our exhibited moral values summed up before the Supreme Judge and get us to be just like Him, i.e. righteous, faithful, honest, courteous, just, forgiving, etc.

What we should be: We all wish to be saved in eternity and we put our hopes in God that He will save us. But just putting our hope in Him would lead us nowhere. If we are willing to be saved, we should make our deeds worthy enough to get us saved.
We need to eradicate our sinful nature and purify ourselves just as He is pure. To simplify the above statement, we have to get rid of our sinful nature and imbibe in ourselves righteous qualities that we get to be like Him.

Message for the week:

Just putting our hopes in God won’t save us. We, being His children need to sanctify our acts to the extent that we reflect His values in our everyday deeds in order to SAVE OURSELVES.

Recite this short prayer with me, "Lord, I believe You are my everlasting Parent and I am Your eternal child. Being Your child, I wish to inherit Your values to be like You when I get to see You. Lead me in your path that I may purify myself just as you are pure.”

Amen

God bless you