Children of God

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." -1 John 3:1-2

I know there's more in the New Testament too that calls us sons and daughters of God too, but this one seems to work for now. It's just something that I got reminded of (probably by the spirit) during worship at church tonight. Being a child of God. The imagery of that, of the unconditional love and acceptance that God has for us... yeah I "know" it, but still sometimes I don't know it. And tonight I think I "got" it a bit more tonight when God brought that to memory. And it was good.

Heh, this past month. 1 John has just come up everywhere. 1 John 4 especially. I dunno what it is but for ages I just kept going back to it in my quiet times. Then it came up on camp. Then in small group. Then at church tonight. And now when Anthony found the above passage for me. Interesting that.


On another note, it's been a while. Sometime I'll get around to a "what I've been doing" post. It involves not getting to sleep until almost 5am on one of the nights in that space, just as a random exerpt :p