October 29, 2020

I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, “Your nobody!” they’re calling you “God’s living Children.”
- Romans 9:25-26 – The Message

We are called God’s children. Everyone you meet, even those you know and don’t care for. All are made in the image of the divine, and for those who have accepted the truth of Christ, we have been adopted by the living God as heirs to an eternal kingdom. All of this is proof that God loves us more than we can ever know.

This world tries so hard to get us to disbelieve the truth of God’s love for us, and I would add we do a pretty good job of discrediting the love of others at times. The world would have us mope around, depressed, sorrowful, worried, and anxious. Yet, God’s love has never stopped; not since the day He declared that life would exist. Even in the oldest of Scriptures from the book of Genesis, God’s heart breaks at the breaking of covenant. Heartbreak can only happen if love exists.

From before you or I were ever formed, we were loved, and that love has not stopped, nor will it ever stop. As Eugene Peterson put it; we are the nobodies that God has called, and in Christ we are somebody. Moreover, we are called by God, as children and as brothers and sisters to Christ and one another. Greater still, we have become God’s hands and feet in this world. There is no reason for any more head drooped walking, or unsure talking. Take your position on the hill and raise your hands. For you have been called by name, and you are accepted and loved beyond anything you have ever known or will ever understand. Someone needs to hear that. And maybe to someone you need to repeat that. You are loved by an eternal God, who wants the best for you now, and always.

Enter the gates of the king of kings and lord of lord. Accept your place as God’s living child, and live in His awesome wonderful presence.

Grace & Peace,
Sam