2.10.11

1 John 3:2
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.


Dear friend,

How blessed we are to be called children of the living God and to call Him our Heavenly Father! How does that sentence sit with your spirit? For some, there are qualities of God that our father on earth exemplified but for others, their earthly fathers have wounded them deeply. Just like us, none of our dads are/were without sin but if you've been wounded in this area, I pray against strongholds that may be fortified in your mind (2 Cor 10:4-5) and that the Word of God would demolish them to rubble. We are in danger of transferring our thoughts and feelings of our earthly fathers to our Heavenly Father but we must let our Heavenly Father's Word be our guide. Abba, Father loves us, disciplines and encourages His children with absolute perfection.

The second part of this verse seems to place us in the "meanwhile" as what we will be has not been made known but we do know that we'll be like Him soon. In the meanwhile, we are being conformed to the image of Christ (2 Cor 3:18) and we must look forward to that glorious day when we are fully conformed and see Him as He is!

In Christ,
Mike