“He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.” John 1:10 (ESV)
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become Children of God,” John 1:12 (ESV)
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become Children of God,” John 1:12 (ESV)
After Jesus was born and then, after He lived here on earth His disciple John wrote much about Him. In the Gospel of John, in the first chapter are these two selected verses for today. These verses reveal two very different attitudes toward the child who was born in Bethlehem and whose birth we celebrate during this Christmas season. For some, the events of the Christmas story are not really very important. Why is this? Because they do not yet know Him. They reject and do not recognize Jesus as the One sent from God and who was also the One through whom our world was created. But for us who know Jesus as the One who came personally into our world to live as a human and have accepted through faith and belief in His Word, we have received adoption with the right to be a child of God. Fully understanding how great God is may be difficult but we can thank Him for what He has done for us. The more we embrace this truth, the more precious it is for us to know we are children of God by rights He has given to us.
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