God the Father All in All

This week we continue with the series Knowing God As Father, with particular reference to the Father being All in All. This phrase comes from 1 Corinthians 15:28, which speaks of the great culmination of the kingdom as Jesus (the Last Adam, the true man in whom we stand before God) hands all things to the Father that he might be all in all. It is not just that he will be all to us, but that he will be all IN all. The fullness of the Father's family is nothing other (and nothing less than!) the fullness of the love of the Father himself, who is love. Even now we are fully loved in the Father, and as members of Christ are as much the objects of the Father's affection as the Son himself in whom we stand. The difference between then and now is one of sight only. We are as loved here as there, and we are as much members of the Son here as there. Those who have gone before us may be 'more happy, but not more secure' than we, who await the last day.