How The Father Sees Us
ICS Daily Devotions
John 1:12 (NKJV) But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Galatians 4:6 (NKJV) And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
To have an intimate relationship with God, we need to have the right perception of the Heavenly Father and the right perspective of how He sees us. The Old Testament saints did not have the concept of God as their Heavenly Father because they were under the tutorage of the law. However, everything changed for us after the atonement and redemptive work of Jesus Christ. We are blessed and privileged to have God Almighty as our Heavenly Father. We have been given the right to become God’s children when we receive Jesus into our hearts. We will utter “Abba Father” in our quiet moments with Him. He wants us to have childlike faith to come before Him to believe in His Word. Therefore, we need to see ourselves as God’s children and not feel inhibited from being in the presence of God. God knows our needs before we even ask Him for them because the Heavenly Father will provide for His family. He wants us to come to Him even though He knows what we need because He cherishes our time and our walk with Him, and He desires us to seek His face and not just His hands.
Ephesians 1:5-6 (NKJV) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
The Apostle Paul prayed that God would open the eyes of the believers to see the wonderful position that we have been blessed with through all the spiritual blessings in the heavenly places that God has bestowed on us. Similarly, not every Christian today knows the great news of their spiritual blessings in Christ. Many are still trying to earn and achieve God’s love and acceptance even though they are already accepted by God. It is a positional truth that will not change.
Through the blood of Jesus Christ, we are accepted by the holy, just, and righteous God. Though we are imperfect until we are in heaven, God has chosen to see us in Christ now. Therefore, we must bear this truth in mind, especially when approaching Him in prayer. God only sees us in Christ because of our union with Him. We need to accept and rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ. We must also appreciate that God, the Heavenly Father, is the source of every blessing. Precious and priceless are the gifts that He has given to us. What a privilege and honour it is to have free access to the throne of God the Father, and be able to talk to Him freely about anything and everything.
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