“If there’s anything that I want you to hear this morning is that what is said of Jesus is said of you. You have to hear that you are the beloved daughter and son of God.”
HENRI NOUWEN
We might easily skip over the importance of this statement, and perhaps how shocking it is.
And yet if you hold on to this truth, if you get it deep into your heart so that it is the foundation of your identity – the unshakeable knowledge of who you are – then your life will in every aspect become more and more the life of the Beloved child of God.
This is so important that John based his whole concept of what salvation and eternal life means upon this truth. He opens his gospel with a passage that the only begotten Son of God – the eternal Son who is God.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
John 1:12-13
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