The Gift Of God

1 John 3:9  

"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; 

for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot 

sin, because he is born of God."  

    All men are children of God in the sense, that we owe our lives to Him. We become His children only by an act of God's initiating grace and the response of our own hearts.  

Immediately the question arises: if we have that great honor when we become Christians, why are we so despised by the world?  The answer is that we are experiencing only what Jesus Christ has already experienced. When He came into the world, He was not recognized as the Son of God; the world preferred its own ideas and rejected His. The same will happen to any man who chooses the way of Jesus Christ.  Just remember; We are not merely called the children of God; We are the children of God.  It is by the "gift" of God that a man becomes a "child" of God.  By nature a man is the creature of God, but it is by grace that he becomes the child of God. 

   My Friends, When Christ appears, we shall see Him and be like Him.  The goal of all Believers has been and still is the vision of God. The end of all devotion is to see God. But that vision of God is not for the sake of individual satisfaction; it is in order that we may become like Him. Here is the Reality!  We cannot become like God unless we see Him; and we cannot see Him unless we are pure in heart, for only the pure in heart shall see God . In order to see God, we need the purity which only He can give.  "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." (Matt. 5:8).   

Amen!

Reading: 1 John 3:1-10 

Ref: HGSB

Ma God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry