Recently God has been growing me in strange ways. When I say strange, I mean in ways I never thought he would grow me in. I’ve always loved the concept, “Child of God.” We have heard this phrase over and over again in church and in christian communities, but do we ever actually soak in what that truly means???
Galations 3:26 says, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”
Psalm 127:3 says, “Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.”
I picked these two verses because this describe my thought processes. I am a child of God becuase God chose me and i chose him back through his will. SO THANKFUL FOR THAT. The next verse says that we are a GIFT from God. I am a gift??? What? A gift to God? Yes, I am. This concept amazes me. All of my life i have struggled with understanding the concept of grace. I constantly get upset when I mess up. My mess ups and sins sometimes form into my identity… But God calls me renewed and HIS gift. I am radically humbled by the fact he wants me, someone who messes up all the time. It amazes me that I am a child of God and a flawed person who messes up. Child of God is my identity not my mistakes.
Child Of God is also a intimate thing. I remeber as a little girl, my dad was my hero. I would wait for him to come home, and when he came home He would pick me up and say he loved me. My dad is still my hero; he has always looked on his baby girl as a gem that he must protect. That’s how God is in my life. God isn’t just a friend to me but MY FATHER. What a loving father he is, and hero in my life. I am amazingly humbled to be a child of God.
