Monday, November 24, 2008

I'm a Child of the Most High! (1)

In NKJV John 1, "12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."



Many times a day, I would think of this verse. Pondering over why God will say "...He gave the right to become children of God"? He could have said "But as many as received Him, they are children of God." Why then? So we still get to choose not to become Children of God after we have received Him? In KJV, it's written "...to them gave he power to become sons of God" Power (ἐξουσία exousia) refers to authority, right, privilege.



In the good old days, relationship with God was broken because of sin. Well, thanks to our first man whos name was Adam for being "dumb". His very beautiful wife Eve ( If she's not beautiful, who else?) had an 'interesting' dialog session with the serpent. Just imagine "Ah-dumb" was sitting beside listening to his wife talking to the serpent and serpent talking back to his wife and to the serpent and to the wife again and "Ah-dumb" was being dumb! He was keeping quiet all along! Apple was eaten, sin came in and a perfect relationship with God was broken.

By one man mistake, sin came in and death approaches but by one 'man' love, sin was taken and life is saved. Because of this One Man and God, Jesus Christ, who bore our sins on the cross and died so we may live. Who was striped so we may get healed. Who was crowned with crown of thorns so we may be crowned with crown of Glory. Who was clothe with unrighteousness so we may be clothe with Righteousness. Who called on God on the cross so we may call God our Father.

It is because All authority, power and might has been given to Jesus because of what He has done for us that we who believed and received Him as our Lord are given the authority, right and privilege to become the Children of God.

Jedidiah; 9:24 PM