Having grown up in a Christian family; having known the bible stories and psalms from a young age it is easy to forget the blessing of what it actually means to be called a child of God. I go to church every Sunday with my family, and I just do because that is what I've always done, and that's what everyone else does. We all go to church, every Sunday. That is the norm.
Yet rarely do I think of what a blessing it is to be able to go to church every Sunday. What a blessing it is that God has called me into His covenant congregation. So then I think to myself: out of the many billions of people that have been and are now in the world, God has chosen me to call His own child.
When I think about this for a moment then I am so very thankful for this. For its God's doing that I am a christian and that I go to church every Sunday. God chose me before the foundation of this world and said 'You are mine'.
I think that is so wonderful. Such love.
"The Holy Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ..." (Romans 8: 16-17)
Then when I feel this in my heart all I want to do is show thankfulness with my whole life. God has taken me out of that pit of sin. Saved by the blood of Christ and renewed by His Holy Spirit. I am a new being. I am a child of God, a citizen of His heavenly kingdom. God has blessed me with THIS. He has given me a spirit to live, and a spirit to cry 'Abba, Father'. (Romans 8:15)
What a rich blessing it is to be called a 'Child of God'.
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