Celebrate the right to be a child of God.

 

We received the right to become a child of God, following God’s mission in the world as children of God.

 

The apostle John clearly teaches this truth:

John 1: 10-14 - To those who believed in his name, Jesus gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

The overwhelming glory of the one and only Son of God came from his Father’s heavenly home to bring the message of the grace and truth of God to those who were God’s own. Jesus was not recognised and he was not received by the leaders of Israel. They chose to rather reject his message and spread lies about his resurrection.

 

But the Father sent us his Spirit and we were, through the Spirit’s gracious work made to become new creations as we were born of God. The Holy Spirit changed us from enemies of his Kingdom into people touched by grace and changed into God’s children. As children of the Father, our eyes were opened to recognise Jesus, to believe in his Name and receive the right to live in the light of the glory of Jesus Christ.

 

We are given this right when we were adopted by God the Father in Christ and given the privilege to call the almighty Creator “Abba” which means “my Daddy”.

 

Celebrate the right to be a child of God today.

Celebrate the redeeming life of Jesus that brought you to the truth and the knowledge of the glory of Christ.

Celebrate the awesome calling to be the instrument used by the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of the spiritually blind and call those who are spiritually dead, to life.

Celebrate that you have been changed to become the visible and audible Word of God who share his message with people who stumble in darkness, saying: “You too have the right be a child of God.”

Celebrate that you too can know Jesus and share his glory, truth and grace with others.

Celebrate that you too cannot only see but show the glory of Jesus to a world stumbling in disastrous darkness.

 

When we follow God’s mission as the children of God and as the Church of Christ, we share the Light of Jesus with a world gone astray. We spread the light of Jesus Christ, the eternal Light of the world.