Are we all God’s Children?

  That particular phrase has always fascinated me. Usually because it is used in a fashion that means God is ok with us all and we are all ok. After all God is love.

  Well, God is indeed love. Love is the greatest and most powerful motivation there is in this world. Yet love is an action and not an emotion. There are emotions that come from the act of love but it is not true love if an emotion predicts our action.

  So are we really all God’s children and, as such, all ok because God loves us? In the end, will everything work out? The obvious answer is no!

  We are not all God’s children. God created Adam and Eve in the Garden but then mankind fell and became a child of the Devil. Even Jesus Christ labeled the religious rulers of His day as such.

John 8:44a – “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.”

  You only become a child of God when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. You must realize that you are a sinner in need of a Saviour before God can be called your Father and heaven your final home.

Romans 10:9-11 – “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”

II Corinthians 6:17-18 – “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”

  But even if you do become saved and become a child of God, does that mean everything you do from that moment is ok and sanctioned by your heavenly Father? NO!

  What parent is fine and ok with everything thing their child does. Not one. This is why we discipline our children. We correct them so that they can grow up to be mature adults ready to take on the world.

  It is no different with our heavenly Father. He corrects and disciplines us out of a perfect love so that we might be spiritually mature.

  That is the fact. Pure true love does not accept everything that comes down the pike, but makes judgements on those things that are harmful and eliminates them. Love does not allow people to continue on with whatever they want because what we want can often harm us drastically. God wants something better for His children than that.

Jeremiah 31:3 – “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”