#God's family

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Children of God

1 Consider the incredible love that the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called “children of God”—and that is not just what we are called, but what we are. Our heredity on the Godward side is no mere figure of speech—which explains why the world will no more recognise us than it recognised Christ.

2 Oh, dear children of mine (forgive the affection of an old man!), have you realised it? Here and now we are God’s children. We don’t know what we shall become in the future. We only know that, if reality were to break through, we should reflect his likeness, for we should see him as he really is!

3 Everyone who has at heart a hope like that keeps himself pure, for he knows how pure Christ is.

Conduct will show who is a man’s spiritual Father

4-6 Everyone who commits sin breaks God’s law, for that is what sin is, by definition—a breaking of God’s law. You know, moreover, that Christ became man for the purpose of removing sin, and he himself was quite free from sin. The man who lives “in Christ” does not habitually sin. The regular sinner has never seen or known him.

7-9 You, my children, are younger than I am, and I don’t want you to be taken in by any clever talk just here. The man who lives a consistently good life is a good man, as surely as God is good. But the man whose life is habitually sinful is spiritually a son of the devil, for the devil is behind all sin, as he always has been. Now the Son of God came to earth with the express purpose of liquidating the devil’s activities. The man who is really God’s son does not practise sin, for God’s nature is in him, for good, and such a heredity is incapable of sin.

10 Here we have a clear indication as to who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. The man who does not lead a good life is no son of God, nor is the man who fails to love his brother.

11-13 For the original command, as you know, is that we should love one another. We are none of us to have the spirit of Cain, who was a son of the devil and murdered his brother. Have you realised his motive? It was just because he realised the goodness of his brother’s life and the rottenness of his own. Don’t be surprised, therefore, if the world hates you.

Love and life are inter-connected

14-15 We know that we have crossed the frontier from death to life because we do love our brothers. The man without love for his brothers is living in death already. The man who actively hates his brother is a potential murderer, and you will readily see that the eternal life of God cannot live in the heart of a murderer.

16-18 We know and, to some extent realise, the love of God for us because Christ expressed it in laying down his life for us. We must in turn express our love by laying down our lives for those who are our brothers. But as for the well-to-do man who sees his brothers in want but shuts his eyes—and his heart—how could anyone believe that the love of God lives in him? My children, let us not love merely in theory or in words—let us love in sincerity and in practice!

Living in love means confidence in God

19-20 If we live like this, we shall know that we are children of the truth and can reassure ourselves in the sight of God, even if our own hearts make us feel guilty. For God is infinitely greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

21-23 And if, dear friends of mine, when we realise this our hearts no longer accuse us, we may have the utmost confidence in God’s presence. We receive whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his orders and following his plans. His orders are that we should put our trust in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another—as we used to hear him say in person.

24 The man who does obey God’s commands lives in God and God lives in him, and the guarantee of his presence within us is the Spirit he has given us. — 1 John 3 | J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) The New Testament in Modern English by J.B Phillips copyright © 1960, 1972 J. B. Phillips. Cross References: Genesis 4:8; Leviticus 19:17; Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 15:7; Deuteronomy 19:11; 2 Samuel 13:22; 2 Samuel 22:27; Job 19:26; Job 22:26; Psalm 17:15; Psalm 38:22; Psalm 119:3; Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 29:27; Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 4:3; Matthew 5:19; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 12:28; Matthew 13:38; Luke 20:36; John 1:12-13; John 1:29; John 2:23; John 5:24; John 10:11; John 13:4; John 13:34-35; John 15:13; John 15:18; John 17:19; Acts 23:3; Romans 8:9; Romans 8:14; Romans 8:34; Romans 14:22; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 3:12; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:3-4; 1 John 2:21; 1 John 2:26; 1 John 4:4; 2 John 1:1; 3 John 1:11

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[rinneycanon]

WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKK 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[faithfilleddani]

I love being able to fellowship with other believers in my community. I am part of a fellowship group where we have weekly devotionals for those who are interested in deepening their faith.

We have a back to school fellowship event coming this month for those who are interested in joining here in the Dallas, Texas area.

Direct message me if you're interested. Let's connect. ♥️

FYI: You don't have to be in the Dallas area to join weekly devotionals, but it's great if you are. 🙂

[sophsun1]

Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[professorgtnt]

有一家教會要造一所新的禮拜堂 ，彩色玻璃窗是其中一 樣非常重要的建築 ;委員會商量後，決定以詩歌中一句話 : 「千萬孩童站立圍繞天上神的寶座」作為主題 ，也請了一位藝術家，以這個主題為他們的彩色 玻璃窗，作了一幅畫。藝術家非常喜愛這件工作，完成之後倒在床上睡著了;睡夢中聽見畫室有聲音，他進去一看，有位陌生人手中拿著畫筆與調色板，在他的畫上作畫;「嗨! 不要弄壞了我的畫! 」他大聲喊著。 「你的畫已被弄壞了!」那陌生人答道。「怎麼會呢?」「你的調色板上有這麼多顏色，為甚麼你只用 一種白色，來畫所有這些孩童的面貌呢?誰告訴你天上所有孩童的面貌，都是白色的 ?」「沒有人，是我自己這樣想的 。」那陌生人說 :

「我將他們的面貌，有的畫成紅色的，有的畫成黃色的，有的畫成棕色的，有的畫成黑色的 ;因為我呼召的時候，他們都答應了我的呼召。」「你的呼召?你是誰?」「有 一次我曾說 讓小孩子到我這裏來 ，不要禁止他們 ，因為在天國裏的正是 這樣的人。我現在還是這樣說 。」藝術家立刻知道這是主自己 。當他知道是 主時 ，主就不見了。他的畫比以前的 ，好看得多了!孩童們的面貌 ，有紅的 、黃的 、棕的 、黑的 、白的 。 第二天這藝術家醒過來時，立刻進入畫室，他的畫還是 原樣地擺在那裏，他知道那不過是一場夢。當天委員會的人，要來看這幅畫，他立 刻拿起筆，將孩童們的面貌，改畫成世界各色人種的顏色 ;委員會的人都覺得這幅畫很美，其中有一位低聲說: 「噢! 這真是神家裏的人， 全 聚在家中! 」 (Oh ! It is God's family at home.)

[sunderwight]

I think that one of the most underrated reveals in Scum Villain was that Luo Binghe inherited his big dick toxic alpha male energy from his birth mother, and it actually has nothing to do with his demon side.

[gaypeople]

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[theblackfemininesociety]

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[fairycosmos]

it's crazy arguing with your parents as a fully grown adult because it's like i can't talk about childhood without sounding like a bitter insane asshole but those experiences literally shaped the person i am and i don't understand why they just get to dismiss it all and make me look cruel for being maladjusted when they played a massive part in making me this way

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"We are adopted into God's family through the resurrection of Christ from the dead in which he paid all our obligations to sin, the law, and the devil, in whose family we once lived. Our old status lies in his tomb. A new status is ours through his resurrection." Sinclair Ferguson

[i-like-to-look-at-your-back]

°˖✧ Hayakawa family unit ✧˖°

[mxwhore]

so right now a whole ass chunk of chile is burning down and it is really Fucking Bad. it hit and spreaded so fast im like. 90%!!!!! of the jardín botánico de viña del mar burned down in one night. four in ground workers died. i am absolutely heartbroken for them and the treasure in biodiversity gone. and thats just 4 out of +100? lives lost in this chaos, that is still ongoing.

because of this, i will be splitting my patreon income evenly between care for gaza and techo chile, for the foreseable future. donate if can you can! it would really make a difference

[rinneycanon]

[krussyarts]

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