Belonging

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Whose child are you? Who do you belong to?

We are God’s children. We belong to God.

In his first letter, the Apostle John wrote, “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. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.” (1 John 3:1-3, ESV).

God loves us so much, he calls us his children. When others may not know us well, we are perfectly loved and known by God and by our brothers and sisters in Jesus.

God has a purpose for our belonging—to make us more and more like him. We will resemble our Heavenly Father to whom we belong.

May we place our hope in being a child of God and in our belonging in him, and purify ourselves as our Heavenly Father is pure.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For Guidance: “Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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