I am truly grateful to have a Father such as God, the heavenly Father and Father of all lights and spirits. He is truly amazing and awesome
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What a privilege it is to be called sons of God. Apostle John says it like this:
1Jn 3:1 KJV Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
The Amplified version quotes the same verse as follows:
1Jn 3:1 AMP SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.
What an awesome verse this is. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be taken for granted. The Father has given, shown, bestowed on everyone that accepts His grace of salvation through Jesus Christ, the gift of being permitted to be named and called and counted as HIS very own children. Jesus almost got stoned once for calling himself a son of God.
Joh 10:29-36 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. (30) I and my Father are one. (31) Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. (34) Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (35) If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; (36) Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
Why did the Jews want to stone him for calling himself a son of God as verse 36 shows us? Because they understood something most Christians do not and that was the fact that a child and father carry the same nature. For Jesus to call himself the son of God was tantamount to declaring himself to be in the god-class i.e. to be a partaker in the nature of God. Jews never called God Father because that would mean they were gods or in the god-class. But we call Him Father. Like Jesus we are sons of God [male and female] and that means we carry the same nature as God. We operate in the god-class creating and reshaping the earth according to the will of God. As members of this new creation, we have a mandate to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Gen 1:28) and by so doing establish God’s kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. His Kingdom is already within us and our job is to release it our of our bellies like rivers of living water everywhere we go e.g. in our homes, at our jobs, in the supermarket, in the film industry, in the music industry, in the fashion industry, in public policy, in government, in sports, in culture, in the media etc. How do we release it? One way is by speaking in tongues. Oh what an awesome honor it is to be sons of God with ALL this ability and enablement.
AWESOM!!! Once we were dead in the old life of mediocrity, sin and death but now His mercy has caused us to be made alive in Him. What an awesome God! And the best is that we have done nothing to deserve such love, grace and mercy.
He just gives out of the abundance of His nature which is love. God does not possess love. He is love. The most natural thing for God to do is love. It is His default disposition.
God bless His will for your life as you have read this blog. Have a beautiful, God-vitalized week full of His love and beauty. Be energized by the King of wonders to live for Him.
