Saturday. January 10, 2015
TEXT: JOHN 1:10-14
Key Verse: “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” (John 1:12).
Princes and princesses of this world walk tall because of their royal birth. They are regarded as principal citizens and enjoy exclusive privileges just for being born by a king. But how more
glorious it is to be born into the family of the King of kings and Lord of lords. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: ther efore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”
The same blindness that prevented the world of Jesus’ time from knowing that the Creator incarnated and was in their midst is happening to a greater part of the world today. The text uniquely
and pungently revealed the identity of Christ as the Word that has been with God from the beginning and through whom all things were made. As Light of a world that had been darkened by sin, He came to seek and to save the lost mankind. The great John the Baptis came to herald His coming. Yet, with all the signs and wonders Christ Himself wrought, many people still “knew him not”. He came into the world among the Jews and they failed to acknowledge Him as the long-awaited Messiah – “his own received him not”. But God’s salvation plan is far higher than their expectation. “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.”
To receive Christ implies personally taking Him as your Saviour. Believing His name means accepting the purpose of it - the offer of salvation through it (Matthew 1:21). Access to God through prayers is by the name of Jesus. This is how to obtain the power of sonship of God with innumerable blessings here and hereafter. Much more than princes, we have been made “kings and priests”.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: MATTHEW 22 - 23
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Christ became the Son of Man to make us sons of God.
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