Sonship with God

“Father” and “son.” Blessed relationship; life of life. There is fatherhood in God, but it can be realized by the man only by being born of God. God must come into man’s humanity and man must come into God’s divinity that he might realize God as his Father and himself as God’s son. This is made possible in Christ. God’s divinity and man’s humanity are united in Christ. God can come to man in Christ’s divinity, and man can come to God in Christ’s humanity. God’s divinity can enter into our humanity and we become partakers of the divine nature. We can come to know God only in Christ. We can see God only as we see Him in Christ. We can come to be like God only in Christ Jesus. Christ is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:5). Christ will show us the Father in Himself (John 14:8-9). You can become like God only to the extent you see Him in Christ.

Suppose you never saw your mother’s father. Your mother loved, honored and revered her father. She thought he was the most exemplary man she knew. Her highest ambition was that her son be a man like her father. She knew that to have him grow up to be such a man she must show her father to her son. She imbibed the spirit of her father. His character was inwrought in her being. She taught in word all she could to her boy about his grandfather, and she showed the image of her father to the boy by living the life, and thus the boy saw his grandfather in and through his mother and was fashioned into his image.

If we will listen and obey Christ’s teaching, look into His holy life and imitate it, we will grow into the likeness of the Father.