Becoming A Child of God, Part 1 (TMF:2973)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
What then, what does it mean to become a child of God? John speaks of us who believe having “the right to become children of God.” The Apostle John expounded on this point for us in his epistle of 1 John. There, in chapter 3, he writes, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure” (1 John 3:1-3, ESV). The right of becoming one of God’s children, indeed something we have chosen by our free-wills, our free-nature, is also shown by John to exemplify the love that the Father has toward us. This isn’t a physical, human birth, like the birth we first have when we arrive on this planet. In contrast, it is a spiritual birth.