GREAT LOVE OF GOD
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.1 John 3:1
Jesus came into this world to save us from the darkness of this world. Scripture says, ” Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests” Luke 2:14. Here we can say God favoured us, saved us from this darkest world where Satan is ruling over it. Jesus started his ministry with the proclamation of his foremost aim by reading the following scripture, ” The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom to the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s Favor.” Luke 4: 18-19.
God was born to us on earth as a human. He sacrificed his life for us when we were sinners, Roman 8:5, and graciously approached those who took refuge in him or believed in him. He gave them the rights of his children. We need to keep in mind that the merciful God has brought us from a fallen state to a completely holy one.
1 John 3: 9 says that no one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. The seed of God is in us, for we do not sin. . We were poor, oppressed, and blind because Satan imprisoned us. The good news came to us because God favoured us. The fatherhood of God is a splendid gift to us. John 1:12. Now we must declare the qualities in our lives as mentioned in Peter 2: 9 that we are of the “chosen race, the political priesthood, the holy nation, God’s own people, who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
Do not go with this world. The world doesn’t know God the Father, so how can it know you and me? So don’t look at yourself from the world’s point of view, but accept God’s gift of love and live a holy life.