"Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn't know Him. Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure. " 1 John 3:1-3
We have been adopted by God into His family of faith! Having never been adopted, I've had a difficult time fully understanding this concept. Last night, I watched a movie that somehow helped me to understand...The movie was "The Blind Side." A great movie about southern (white) family who adopts a homeless (black) teen. From the outside they do not seem to mesh...they don't look similar or talk the same way, they do not come from the same area of town or the same area of mind, they are in every way incompatible (from the outside). But inside this family there is bonding and acceptance that can only come from the heart overflowing with love and grace! So it is with God. Jesus came to this earth in the form of a man in order to die on a cross and free us from our bondage, pay our debt, and sign our adoption papers with His blood...thus adopting us into His family...a family that we as mere sinners don't look like we fit...but God welcomes us with love and grace just the way we are.
What a wonderful privilege we have to be a part of God's family!
It's amazing how God speaks to us through the things of this world, isn't it? I am so thankful to finally begin to understand what it means to be called God's daughter.
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