We Are Made Sons of God

When Mary Magdalene finally recognized Christ at the tomb on that resurrection Sunday morning, He disclosed to her a great truth: that His heavenly Father is also Father to His redeemed people!

After His resurrection, Christ made explicit what He had previously mentioned during His ministry: that all people who trust in Jesus are the children of God. We have the same family relationship to God the Father as Jesus did in His humanity.

That's why Christ taught us to pray to God as our heavenly Father, and to ask of Him the things that we need.

Jesus even uses the example of earthly fathers, who provide good things to their children, as the lesser example of God our Father's solicitous care for us as His children.

Christ taught us that we are not to be concerned about how God our Father will provide for us, because He certainly will provide what we actually need. Christ assures us that the Father already knows what we need, and so we are trust Him, and not fear or be distressed about it.

Not only that, but our Father knows what we need before we ask of Him, and He lovingly provides those needs, even before we ask of Him!

This is what all good earthly fathers do, to provide for their children.

But then Christ tells us something astounding: fear not, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give to you the kingdom!

This is the first hint that, as God's children, we are entitled to a vast and rich inheritance!

It is no common inheritance, but rather a royal one! We are the children of no mean family, but rather, of the family of the living God of all things!