Time as a Son sure flies!

O my! has it really been that long since my last blog? Obviously the tyranny of the urgent and the daily prioritization of life’s events has pushed this spot way to the back burner. I’ll consider it a reason for more Wondrous Joy!

There are so many things demanding my time as an undershepherd of God’s church that I simply do not have much time to blog. I’d rather be very busy doing God’s work which has eternal consequences than having time every day to blog anyway. But I do enjoy logging my thoughts and the challenges and mysteries I face from time to time.

With Father’s Day drawing near I was dwelling upon God as ‘Father’. Jesus Christ is the object of all the Father’s love. Amazing grace has seen to it that I am in Christ. His delight was to do His Father’s will — His meat and drink to do the will of Him that sent Him. Therefore, because I am in Him I know the Father’s love. I have His Father as my Father. I have the Spirit of adoption whereby I cry, Abba Father.

I am brought then in this new life and nature — the Father has brought me — into the very same position and title that the Lord Jesus is in. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,, that we should be called the sons of God; beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”

As we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” What Wondrous Joy lifts my heart as my soul goes on in fellowship with the Father and with His Son.