Advent is here, Christmas is coming, and excitement is in the air! We all feel it. Young children are even more excited and, I hope, trying to be good. While their excitement may be motivated by the anticipation of gifts, we adults become excited and nervous about all the things we think we have to do to get ready for the celebration.
But wait….in this passage the author reminds us we are all “children of God”, adults and kids. He then adds further anticipation that “what we will be has not yet been revealed”. Now that’s pretty exciting too. There’s a lot more to come for us all. But in the meantime he says to his friends, “we do know that… we will be like Him”. Whoa! Does he mean that we will be without sin like God? How can we do that? We know we all sin either intentionally or unintentionally.
Well I think it means that the more that we realize that we are God’s children, the better off we will be and much less likely to sin intentionally. But if we succumb too much to the evil possibilities of this world, we could even become like a “child of the devil”. Who would want that, especially during this season?
Fortunately through the revelation of God’s son Jesus to this world, he is able to overcome and “destroy the works of the devil”. If we believe, and are baptized, we receive God’s gift of grace for all our sinful ways. We received full forgiveness for our sins our whole lives here on earth.
Wow! What a gift! What a Dad!!
by George Mohr
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