God's Working Promise: Assignment Under Way, Matriculated, Begun

Pirated from Rosemary Bardsley's God's Word For You (https://godswordforyou.com/thoughts/promises.html--an interesting and perceptive summation of God's promises to Man, promise #1 here edited with emphases and comments by me. See Bardsley's site for original.)

GOD'S PROMISES #1: THE RIGHT TO BE HIS CHILDREN

"But all those who did receive him, He assigned them to be sons of Allaha (the Godhead), [to them] who believed in his name" (John 1:12 Alexander).

If we assume, as the Bible does, that God is our Creator, then it true that all people are 'children of God' by virtue of creation.

The Bible also states that, though we were created by God and for God, to fulfill his purposes, we have cut ourselves off from him by our rejection of him, and thus identified ourselves as children of the devil.

But God is the eternal Father, whose Father-heart reaches out to us, calling us to return to him. This outstretched hand of God is most clearly demonstrated in his sending of his Manifestation, the eternal Son Jesus Christ, into the world to reveal him.

In this Son of God, we are confronted by the Milta (Miltha), God himself. Here in Jesus Christ, the manifestation of God's Manifestation, we are challenged by the revelation of God himself. In Jesus Christ we are given our one last chance to reverse our rejection of God.

It is at this point that the promise quoted above takes effect: if we receive Jesus Christ, if we believe in his name, give ourselves to Him in complete and humble, trusting surrender (it is his life, after all), God restores the privilege, the grace, of being true children of God, with all the rights of free access and acceptance in his presence--as if our sin had never occurred.

This, and every promise, contains two challenges: the challenge to believe the promise, and the challenge to put that belief into practice.

Do you believe this promise--that those who receive Jesus Christ are children of God?

And, have you actually received Jesus Christ--have you believed in his name?

Are you then living each moment with this grand assurance that you are God's child--loved, protected, secure?

[Scriptures: Genesis 1:26-2:25; Romans 11:36; Genesis 3; Isaiah 59:2; John 8:42-27; 1 John 3:8-10; John 3:16; Luke 15:11-32; John 12:44-46; 14:6-9; 10:30; 1 John 3:1]