This last week I have spent several days with my closest friend from High School. So much has happened in our lives over the past almost fifty years. It was great to have this time to catch up and get to know her once again.
This morning we will finish up the teaching from the first chapter of “Like A Diamond”, Sons of God. Our Father wants us to know Him…
Our Father wants us to know Him and to know Him well. The verses we read from II Peter say we can partake or participate in God’s rich promises through our knowledge of Him. Many are of the mindset that we cannot know what God is going to do but all through His word He tells us we can. He spells it out, He wants us to know Him and His ways of doing things.
“I pray that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. I pray that your life will be strong in love and be built on love. 18 And I pray that you and all God’s holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ’s love—how wide, how long, how high, and how deep that love is. 19 Christ’s love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with everything God has for you.” Ephesians 3:17-19 ERV
A loving father will spend time explaining to his children his reasons for doing things and his thoughts for following a specific pattern. Our Heavenly Father is that same kind of father. (The New Testament reveals the things that were once hidden about God.) Jesus came so that we can know our Father’s ways.
“I always pray to the great and glorious Father, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that he will give you the Spirit, who will let you know truths about God and help you understand them, so that you will know him better.
18 I pray that God will open your minds to see his truth. Then you will know the hope that he has chosen us to have. You will know that the blessings God has promised his holy people are rich and glorious. 19 And you will know that God’s power is very great for us who believe. It is the same as the mighty power 20 he used to raise Christ from death and put him at his right side in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 1:17-20 ERV
After Christ’s death on the cross a new door of relationship was opened with God. God was the One who opened that door. He desires a Father/Child relationship with us. God desires that we share His divine nature. He wants us walking and talking with Him.
Don’t fall for Satan’s lie of unworthiness. We are worthy to commune with God because we have been adopted. Praise God for the position of sonship that He freely gives to each of us who humble ourselves and receive His provision of new life in Jesus Christ.
God has wanted someone to fellowship with, to walk and talk with, since the Garden of Eden and His relationship with Adam.
After Adam’s disobedience God continued to try and build relationship with mankind, but man had hardened his heart to a relationship with God. Our Father has always wanted to develop a relationship with His children.
He made us His own. He adopted us! Praise God for the position of sonship. He has freely given it to each of us who will humble ourselves and receive His provision through Jesus Christ.
…All of God’s promises and blessings belong to you because you are His child. He has made you into a glorious new creation.
Our position of sonship is a precision cut facet in our relationship with the Father. You are “Like A Diamond” in His family!