Intimacy with God.

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It is important that we ask ourselves the following question: Am I enjoying a very close relationship with God?

12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in his name.

John 1:12

We can observe throughout the entire Word of God that from the beginning of life, God's desire has always been to have a personal relationship, a loving relationship with each of his children and with all of creation. And how do we know this?

19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Very truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does likewise."

John 5:19

This is where we owe the Lord Jesus Christ as God himself incarnate, the representation of God here on earth. Jesus Christ came to the world as a man so that we might know God, and the Word confirms that the words and works of Jesus Christ were the works and words of God for us.

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

Throughout the Bible, God invites us to be part of his family, to become his children, and he himself has taken care of the preparations to make all this possible. From the moment we accept Jesus Christ as our only and sufficient Savior, we are inserted into God's family as his children. This relationship with our Father is eternal and is a relationship of love.

15 I will no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know his master's business. But I have called you friends, for all things I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 15:15

Jesus Christ also revealed himself as a friend, first to his disciples, and thus he also reveals himself to us not only as the Son of God but as the eternal friend who will never leave us, who will never forsake us, much less turn away. This means that from the moment of our salvation, Jesus Christ dwells within us, and his Holy Spirit guides us in every step of our lives forever.

31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 20:31

God himself invites us to join his family through faith in Jesus. This is a calling, the greatest and most sublime calling: to believe in the Lord Jesus to live in him not only here on earth but forever in eternity. From the moment we open our hearts to Him, we begin to be children of God, and His Holy Spirit will be working daily within us, developing our family bond as children of God much more strongly. He will also be working within our minds through the Word of God, strengthening our identity as children of God and growing in the Word and work of God.