For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God (Rom. 8:14).
The Holy Spirit always leads us to the core truths of the gospel: Fatherhood and childhood; salvation; certainty of faith; and heirship. These are great and glorious salvation truths. Praise the Lord.
It is unacceptable to claim that the human being is "nothing." Admittedly, Scripture does often remind us of the insignificance and brevity of the human life. But the re-creative theme of the New Testament is that God loved people so much that He sent His Son to the world to reconcile us to Him and to renew us so that we may become what God intended us to be.
We are so unspeakably valuable to God that He invites us to call Him Father. The Spirit leads us to rejoice in humble gratitude about the truth that Christ delivered us from our sin and made us children of God. As we stand in awe of this wonderful truth, we are also told to forget our sinful past and to concentrate on being a child of the King.
An unfailing certainty of God's Fatherhood does not presume smugness, complacency or pride. It is the practical and concrete result of an ongoing relationship with the Living Christ. No longer a slave, but a child and an heir: An indescribable miracle of God's love and grace.
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