Adoption of God's Family!

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.” – Ephesians 1:3-6 NIV

Some parents may have extremely high hope in their children to fulfil their dreams. This may be because they are too old that they don’t have enough capacity to fulfil them or want their reputation to go and be represented well in the world. This also might be because parents think they are very successful and want what is best for their children. However, I believe all of these have to be the pride of parents. I am glad that my parents are fine for me to fulfil my own dream, which is Christian writing. In fact, my mother told me that my writing is extremely good and that I should think Christian-writing as my career.

God adopts us into His family through faith in Jesus Christ. However, He is not selfish,  even though He commands us what to do through the Spirit of God (John 16:7-15). We know this by Ephesians 1:6 in New Living Translation version as it says, “So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.” God is the God of Love, so He seeks to draw people to Himself (see Deuteronomy 7:7-9). Since God is the God of the covenant of love, as explained in Deuteronomy 7:9, and the God of Grace, He bestows His blessings on us. One of His blessings is that we get to be children of God (John 1:12-13).

One definition of holiness is to become entirely devoted to God through faith in Jesus Christ so that we can express how loving God He really is. Although He doesn’t need any praises from us, he desires us to praise Him as this leads to His goodness to every one of us. This does not mean that He gets all the glory for Himself. Since God knows everything, even before they happen, Apostle Paul also stated,

We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. (Romans 8:28-30)

Meditate on Matthew 19:14 and ask yourself whether you have a child-like faith before God.