Hello brethren,
I am Chukwuka Blessing Oluchukwu
Today is the 4th day of May, 2021.
I want to contribute to the topic Are we God's Children
Being God children is not by mouth, it involve
Some procecess and we need to pass this process based on the criteria God has set for us .it is not something that should be forced upon us.
According to the book of Matthew 5:44
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you".
Then ,Verse 45; That ye maybe the Children of your father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise both on the evil and the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust closely,
To be worthy to be called children of God, we have to learn these virtue of loving and praying for our enemies. Doing good to everyone one excluding none
Selfishness is not a virtue found in a true christain. Rather ,we should be selfless.
We must learn to love our enemies and also do good of to them.
How can we become the Children of God?
First we should obey what the book of Luke 6:35 says" Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked
We should also be Compassionate like our creator .The book of
Psalm 51:1 "But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness".
According to the book of Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know.
The Bible passge said we should trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
We are told, positively, to trust the Lord and, negatively, not to trust our own understanding. Those two things are mutually exclusive. In other words, if we trust in the Lord, we cannot also depend upon our own ability to understand everything God is doing.
Most of us have a desperate desire to understand, but in so many areas we must acknowledge that we cannot understand.
We must approve of God’s ways, even when we can’t comprehend them. Isaiah 55:8-9 tells us why we often don’t understand what God is doing: "'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.'"
God sees the whole picture, while we only see our tiny corner of it. To trust in the Lord with all our heart means we can’t place our own right to understand above His right to direct our lives the way He sees fit.
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