True Blue?

TOPIC: The Family of God

SCRIPTURE: "If you are Abraham's children... If God were your Father, you would love Me..."
(John 8:37-42)

OBSERVATION: This passage is centered around the distinction between hereditary and true children. Hereditary= handed down, or legally capable of being handed down, through generations by inheritance holding a right, function, or property by right of inheritance; ancestral background the inherited right to something the transfer of genetically controlled characteristics such as hair color from one generation to the next in living organisms

APPLICATION: As I read over this passage in my Life Application Bible I came across a little commentary that grabbed my attention. It centers around the distinction Jesus made between hereditary and true children. "The religious leaders were hereditary children of Abraham (founder of the Jewish Nation) and therefore claimed to be children of God. But their actions showed them to be true children of Satan, for they lived under Satan's guidance. True children of Abraham (Faithful followers of Jesus) would NOT act as they did.

Your church membership
and
family connections
will NOT
make you a true child of God.

Your true father is the one you:
imitate
and
obey."

So

RU?

PRAYER: Father God, thank you for adopting me into your family. It is so amazing to know that I am your child and that your are my Daddy!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!