Sons Of God!

     "Beloved, now are we the sons of God.  It does not yet appear what we shall be. However,  we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."            (1 John 3:2)

     Wow!  What a promise!  When Jesus is finally revealed in the heavens as He comes to take us home, those who believe in Him and have faithfully followed Him day by day will find that we are like Him, and that we "will know Him even as we are known by Him now".   (1 Corinthians 13:12)

     What we will truly know and understand then is how much we really are like Him.  It will be understood clearly that the working in us of His Holy Spirit has truly transformed us into His likeness.  We will then understand that we really are the children of God, that Jesus is our BROTHER, and that we are treated by God the Father as His offspring just as much as His Son Jesus. 

     Here is a thought for meditation that will take your breath away.  It is something that is so deep and broad that it seems almost impossible - even blasphemous in some way.  While it is true we won't be divine like Jesus is, yet we should allow the Holy Spirit to show us these deep things of God.  If we will allow ourselves to be inspired by these holy musings, it will inspire us to a deeper dedication, a more earnest consecration to God.  We do not understand how great is the plan God has for us, His purpose in creating us.  But we must know if we are to reach the place our Father has prepared for us. 

     This is why we have been told that Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers.  Because both the one doing the sanctifying and the ones being sanctified are all from One.  "Therefore He is not ashamed to call us His brothers".  (see Hebrews 2)  Let your mind wrap around this idea.     "But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:....but as it is written, eye has not seen and ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, What great things God prepared for them that love him.  But God reveals them to us through the Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God."    (1 Corinthians 2:7-10)

     Are you really God's son or daughter?  Have you given yourself to Him without reserve?  Then believe that for Christ's sake the Father accepts you as truly His own offspring.  You are not a second class child.  You are indeed a legitimate child, flesh of His flesh, blood of His blood.  All that belongs to Jesus as God's Son belongs to you as His child also.  Live worthy of the name by which you are called.  Show to everyone you meet what it means to be a child of God!