Brothers and Sisters 😊
📖 In First John chapter 3 today we see the BEST NEWS EVER for all redeemed orphans who were lost at the fall, as adoption, sanctification, and born again completion in glory is our current and future hope…
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are!…Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is!” (vs 1-2).
Q. Do you sometimes stop and consider that as a fully forgiven sinner, and definitively approved of child of God, you are on an irreversible path to Zion, conquering indwelling sin by God’s grace. And in the not-to-distant future you will appear before your loving Father in heaven, permanently waving goodbye and good riddance to the old sin nature forever?!!!
🙏 Heavenly Father thank you so much for your steadfast love and mercy, and for the awesome privilege of being adopted into your forever family with all of its rights and benefits that have been earned for us by the righteous life and precious blood of your beautiful Son Jesus.
🙏 Holy Spirit please continue to mature us in Christ, and stir our hearts to well-pleasing good works in love, making a practice of consistently modeling our Savior for the good of His family and the glory of God…
✝️ “By this we know love, that Jesus laid down His life for us, and we are to lay down our lives for our brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? So let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth.”
1 John 3:16-18
Grace and Gratitude 