[March 20]
Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,...and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. II Corinthians 6:17, 18
WHAT a promise!
What a suggestionthat we, by
nature defiled and imperfect, should not only have
the notice of our sovereign Creator, but should be
invited to become his children and be given the assurance
of his parental affection for usthat "like as
a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them
that reverence him." How wonderful it seems!
And
then, as the apostle elsewhere declares, this is not the
end of the matter, but merely the beginning, for he
says, "If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified together." Z'15-233 R5739:5 (Hymn 189)