Children by Faith

Galatians 3:26 (KJV)

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

By faith. Not by background. Not by performance. Not by how long you have been in church or how well this week went.

We know this doctrinally and forget it practically. The forgetting shows in small ways: praying more confidently after a good week, avoiding God after a bad one, feeling like a proper Christian when serving and a fraud when resting. All of that is the quiet belief that our standing is being recalculated daily.

It is not. A child's place in a family is not reviewed each morning based on behaviour. Behaviour affects the relationship's warmth; it does not affect the sonship.

So today, drop one thing you are doing to prove yourself to God. Keep the things you do because you love Him. You will be surprised how many of your habits belong to the first list.