Thursday, March 19, 2020

Adopted

Romans 8:14-16 KJV
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

If we are adopted, we are certainly wanted/chosen. God desired us to have a closer relationship with Him than to just be His creation.

When we are led by the Spirit of God, we then have His power! We no longer need to be slaves to sin and fear. That is why we can cry out to Abba Father, and He will answer. He has sent His Spirit to speak to our hearts to comfort, encourage, and reprimand just like we parents do for our earthly children.

A.W. Tozer explains it well in His book, God's Pursuit of Man.

How can one personality enter another? The candid reply would be simply that we do not know, but a near approach to an understanding may be made by a simple analogy borrowed from the old devotional writers of several hundred years ago. We place a piece of iron in a fire and blow up the coals. At first we have two distinct substances, iron and fire. When we insert the iron in the fire we achieve the penetration of the iron and we have not only the iron in the fire but the fire in the iron as well. They are two distinct substances, but they have co-mingled and interpenetrated to a point where the two have become one.


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