1 John 3:1-3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
What great love, indeed! As if commuting my death sentence wasn't enough, God set me free, he let me out of the jail cell to walk the streets again. But even more than that, He adopted me and took me home to His mansion.
Because I'm still far closer to my life of capital offenses, I can't even imagine what this means; John says what I will be has not yet been made known. Except I do know, because scripture says so, that when Jesus comes back I'll be like him.
That's the gist of these verses, but they also contain a warning and a challenge. The warning, or maybe just an explanation, is that we'll be at odds with anyone who doesn't know God - "The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him." The challenge is to be as pure as Jesus is pure.
So what! The world might be hard on me, and my calling might be hard for me, but I'm a child of the King!
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