Beloved of God!!

To My Beloved Daughters in Him,

I am studying Romans 1 with Mikayla and came to verse 7 which says:

To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints...(emphasis mine)

How do you describe the indescribable?  

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God!

The God of all creation...the God of the Universe has set His love upon us. We, who believe, have been accepted in the Beloved and are, therefore, beloved of God...objects of divine delight and divine love!!!  We, who can bring nothing but empty hands to our God...we who have nothing good in ourselves....are in fact the joy that was set before Jesus at the cross. We are His children.  His special possession. To save us was His good pleasure!  There is nothing acceptable in us...but we are in Christ and there is everything acceptable in Him. 

We are a priceless commodity to God.  We have been bought with the precious blood of His Son!  His by creation and redemption!  Here on this earth we battle daily with our flesh, but we fight from a position of victory because our lives are hidden in Christ who has overcome the powers of evil.  We, who believe, are more than conquerors through Him who loves us and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who was given to us as a pledge of our inheritance.  God seals us with a view to the redemption of His own possession. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God and the hope that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.--Ephesians 1:13-14

Our God will one day take full possession of what is rightfully His...US!!   

For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; ²¹ because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. ²³ Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.--Romans 8:19-25

Beloved, in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer,  Jesus has overcome the world.  Someday the curse of Genesis 3 will be lifted, and we will be glorified and sin will be defeated forever.  Our hope is sure.  Death has been swallowed up in victory.  The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ.  Rejoice as you read the following from Revelation 5: (the scroll spoken of is the title deed to the earth)

And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. ² Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?”  And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. ⁵ But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.”

And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.  Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.  And they sang a new song, saying:

“You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals;
For You were slain,
And have redeemed us to God by Your blood
Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
And have made us kings and priests to our God;
And we shall reign on the earth.”

Rejoice!!!


“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.--Psalm 91:14

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.--1 John 3:2