We can picture someone helping or saving someone, but not going so far as to make them a part of the family – but this is what God has done for us. There is a sense in which this is a totally “unnecessary” blessing that God gives in the course of salvation, and a demonstration of His true and deep love for us. The Spirit does ( The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, Romans 8:16).The Son does ( He is not ashamed to call them brethren, Hebrews 2:11).The Father does ( “I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty,” 2 Corinthians 6:18).
But God went far beyond that, to call us the children of God. With a mere pity, He might have set forth a plan of salvation where man could be saved from hell. As God looked down on lost humanity, He might have merely had a charitable compassion, a pity on our plight, both in this life and in eternity. That we should be called children of God: The greatness of this love is shown in that by it, we are called children of God. I glory in the fact that I have taken you for my sons and daughters.’” (Spurgeon)ī. “‘There,’ he says, ‘you poor people that love me you sick people, you unknown, obscure people, without any talent, I have published it before heaven and earth, and made the angels know it, that you are my children, and I am not ashamed of you. Behold means that God wants to see this love and He is not ashamed to show it to us. And sometimes it just takes time for a person to come to a fuller understanding of the greatness of God’s love. Sometimes it is unbelief, which cannot trust the love of God when it sees the hurt and pain of life. What is it that makes us slow to believe the love of God? Sometimes it is pride, which demands to prove itself worthy of the love of God before it will receive it.
Secondly, it speaks of the manner of God’s giving of love bestowed has the idea of a one-sided giving, instead of a return for something earned. First, it speaks of the measure of God’s love to us it could more literally be translated lavished on us. It is of great benefit to the Christian to take a good, intense look at the love of God bestowed on us. He wants us to behold it – that is, look at it and study it intently. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Having just mentioned being born of Him, John speaks in amazement about this manner of love that makes us children of God. (1) The glory of God’s love.īehold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.Ī. The destiny of our relationship with God.