Children of God

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. – 1 John 3.1


That we should be called the children of God. The children of God. How is that even possible? God is holy and righteous and pure and right and everything that is good and we are everything He is not.

And yet we know from other places that God adopts us as His children. We know we can call Him ‘Abba Father.’ We know that we are part of His family. We know that we are heirs even to the point of being joint heirs with Christ. I am a child of God.

Indeed, behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us.

Wow!

God loves His children with an everlasting love. He loves us with a love that lasts forever. God never stops loving His children.

I realise that George Strait is no theologian, but I like his description of a father’s love in his song ‘Love Without End, Amen.’ He talks about an earthly father and then relates it to meeting God.

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

As our Daddy God doesn’t love us ‘every now and then.’ Our Daddy God indeed loves us with a ‘love without end, amen.’

All praise to my Father for making me His son.