Last night in our small group from church, we had some spirited discussion about being children of God. I had mostly considered all people to be children of God, but J. I. Packer, the author of Knowing God, has a different perspective - and his position is pretty well backed up in the Bible. While we are all God's creation, and He loves everyone, we do not become children of God until we are adopted into his family. That adoption happens when we recognize and declare that Jesus is His Son and the forgiver of our sins, and that we are choosing to do our best to follow Him. At that point we are adopted into God's family as His children and into brotherhood or sisterhood with Jesus. It may seem like semantics to some, but knowing God as Father and Jesus as Brother is both an awesome and sobering thought. I think I need to take better care.
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