Saturday, February 21, 2009

God doesn’t have any grandchildren

Thank God for grandparents! They are loving, kind, caring, and giving! If you were to ask most any grandparent, they would tell you that having grandchildren is wonderful too. In fact, I’m sure we have all heard it said that “If I’d known having grandkids was so much fun, I would have had them first.”

After so many generations of human beings, aren't there suppose to be great-great-great-grandchildren of God? You will notice, however, that the Bible never calls God our Grandfather, but only our Father. Why is that?

God doesn't have any grandchildren. He only has children.

Yes, He too is loving, kind, caring, and giving, but He has never experienced the joy of being a grandparent or having a grandchild.

Though you may have been born into a Christian home, becoming a true believer in Christ, becoming a child of God, is a personal decision. Your parents cannot raise a Christian. They cannot grow a Christian. You must choose to be a Christian.

A personal relationship with God has to be immediate and direct, like that between a father and son or daughter. As we read in John 1:12-13, But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Each individual sinner must come to God through Christ, having been born of God by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. The fact that one’s father is a child of God does not give you a relationship to God as a “grandfather.” If a person does not receive Him by faith, we are not given the right or privilege to consider ourselves as one of His own.

Being born again is not a group experience. There are no twins or
triplets.... or octuplets. God has no grandchildren, only children, born from His Spirit alone. Being born again is a crucial personal choice that will fundamentally and radically change your life.

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1 comments:

  1. Good thoughts...an individuals choice every single day. Good post.

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