Seeing myself as God’s kid, and God as my healthy, loving Father will make a world of difference concerning my behavior. I am God’s kid, therefore I can live like who I am. I must treat myself and others the way my Father does. God, my Father becomes the key of my thinking, my deciding, my feeling, and my action.

The amazing thing is that God trusts us (you and me) to do this. In fact, the instrument of measurement in the final Judgment is whether we have actually locked-into this amazing truth. (See Revelation 22.12).

There is a healthy power when you believe in your child. God believes in us! He trusts us!

Will being God’s kid really change my behavior? What has been your experience?

Texts (study)

1 John 3.1-2, 4-10…God loves me now! I don’t excuse sin, I understand the Jesus came to destroy sin (the Devil’s work). I want to do what is pleasing to God (righteous), and demonstrate God’s love for me by loving others.

1 John 5.11-13…Having the Son and being a son gives me confidence.

1 John 2.1-6…God’s kids don’t keep on sinning, they walk as Jesus did.

1 John 2.15-17…They give up the old ways of the world in order to stay close to their Father God

Romans 12.1-2…Transformed by renewing our mind

Ephesians 3.14-21…Knowing God’s love and being filled with that knowledge is essential

Ephesians 4.17-32…put off your former self and be renewed in the attitude of your mind.

Ephesians 5.1-11…Be imitators of our Father God

Colossians 3.1-17…rules for holy living for God’s kids. We are loved, therefore we can love others – no matter who they are, or what they have done.

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