WHO
YOU ARE
"Yet to all
who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become
children of God …" (John 1:12).
All have sinned,
and no one is perfect. If you
really wish to change your life, and ask God for forgiveness for old things
done, and accept Jesus as the way and the life, there is no one and no thing
that can keep you from God's love and the kingdom of heaven.
You are not an
animal with a consciousness, nor a body with a spirit.
You are a spiritual being with immortal potential in this body of flesh.
The flesh dies, but your true spiritual nature can live on to find the
One who created you, in fact your Father in heaven, the God of all creation.
"Here and
now, dear friends, we are God's children" (1John 3:2).
"To prove that you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit
of his Son, crying Abba! Father!" (Gal 4:6).
Immortality
comes with believing in God and his divine Son, Jesus Christ, who lived among us
2,000 years ago. When you believe
in God and accept Christ your are "spiritually activated," your spirit
is "set free."
"[I]n
Jesus we are consecrated and set free" (1Col 1:31).
In a sense, your spirit is kept captive by the "flesh."
But when you recognize who you really are, a potential son or daughter of
the living God, made in fact in the image of that God (made of spirit as He is
Spirit), then you are indeed re-born, you are made into a new being, a spiritual
being, and you will look up and see that the world looks very different than it
did before.
Jesus said,
"The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me;
he has sent me to announce good news to the poor,
to proclaim the release of prisoners and recovery
of sight for the blind;
to let the broken victims go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor"
(Luke 4:18-19).
An animal cannot have faith. The
fact that you can have faith shows that you are more than an animal, indeed a
spiritual being. When you do have
faith, when you choose to activate the faith that is within you and believe in
God and Jesus, Son of God, then you enter into your spiritual self.
At first this new self may not be very "strong" and you may
have to eat spiritual "milk" rather than "meat," but as you
continue in faith, then the spirit grows stronger.
Jesus came to
show the way to God. He is the
"way and the life." The
only way to find God and enter into the kingdom of eternal life, is to live the
way that Jesus did. And Jesus lived
a life of loving-service.
As the
Apostle John said, "Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is
from God. Everyone who loves is a
child of God and knows God, but the unloving know nothing of God.
For God is love; and his love was disclosed to us in this, that he sent
his only Son into the world to bring us life" (1John 4:9).
Even as he was dying on the cross, Jesus sought to reveal himself to the
children of God and sought forgiveness even for those who were killing him. The rugged Centurion (Roman warrior) who had just nailed him
to the cross, when he saw how Jesus died, said "Truly this
man was a son of God" (Mark 15:39).
"You,
my brothers, were called to be free" (Gal 5:13).
So, "live as free men, but
do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God" (1
Peter 2:16).
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