Daily Devotions 15th Sept 2017

John 1: 12To those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

To the people of Israel, they had identified themselves as the descendants of father Abraham. They had pride in being the chosen people of God who had promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the Promised Land.

Over the centuries, the people of Israel had experienced blessing and judgement from God depending on their obedience or disobedience to God’s commandments. If they had remain faithful to God they will enjoy a certain period of blessing but when they have turned their backs to God, then judgement came upon them including the the dispersing of the whole nation.

However when Jesus came, He promised all believers that they can now become children of God if they believed in His name and follow Him. For all who received Jesus as their Lord and Savior, Jesus gave them the privilege to become joint heirs with Him to inherit the Kingdom of heaven.

This is the privilege of all believers provided that we remain faithful and obedience to Jesus. This is also applicable to us today; no one can come to God the Father except through His Son Jesus.

Today we are the spiritual children of God, though we are not born as the natural Jews, we are grafted into the family of Jesus Christ when we accepted Him as our Savior. Today, we have the assurance that as long as we remain in Christ, then our citizenship in heaven is assured.

However, we are also commanded that we must go out to the world and preach the Gospel to the lost so that in turn, they too can come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.