A child of God

So often, we live under a cloud of doubt as to whether God truly accepts us as his children. We doubt because we see all our sins and our failures and wonder how in the world God could possibly accept us.

But Paul asks an important question in verses 2.

Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard? (Galatians 3:2)

Put another way, “Why did God accept you in the first place? Why did he send his Spirit to dwell in you? Was it because you had somehow managed to perfectly keep all his laws for a year? A week? A day? An hour?

“No. It was because you put your faith in Jesus.”

And don’t think for a moment that God accepts us as his children only on a trial basis.

Many companies may hire people that way.

But God does not adopt his children that way.

So remember who you are, Child of God.

for through faith you are all sons (and daughters) of God in Christ Jesus. (26)