What is it that brings the unbeliever into a relationship with God?
Is it not, the relationship which we have with Jesus Christ, through faith in his finished work on the Cross?
Now we know that Jesus Christ is the only Begotten Son of God. We will never be begotten sons, for our fathers are carnal. Jesus Father is the Holy, Righteous, all encompassing God who with Jesus and the Holy Spirit built the Worlds, and Stars, and Suns, and all other things seen or unseen.
We, as believers are however true Children of God. The difference is that we are adopted Children.
How did we become Children?
Was it not when we trusted in Christ and what He accomplished on our behalf on the Cross?
THE QUESTION
If we are made Sons of God through what Christ accomplished for us, then why do we so much want to have faith and confidence in other things.
Do we really believe that the good things which we do will somehow make us more of a Child of God?
When I go out of my way to help a Brother in Christ with, say, some kind of project he is working on, “does this make me more of an adopted Child of God?”
If I search every day for things which I can do, in order to ease the burden which my neighbor is harnessed with, “does that make me more of an adopted Child of God?”
While these types of things are definitely good things, “they do not make us more of a Child of God. They do not increase our relationship in any way. Our relationship can only be changed by Christ, and the Holy Spirit when we are given a new nature and created in Christ Jesus unto good works (these good works do not create a relationship; rather they are the results of a relationship).
CHRIST
I think it is necessary to give Jesus Christ credit every single day for the work which he accomplished at Calvary. Not only give him credit but thank him sincerely for giving Himself, the Lamb of God, the precious sacrifice for our Sin.
I believe, Christians who do not do this will VERY OFTEN find themselves (in the process of time), “trusting in the things which they are doing.”
