Child of God

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
-John 6:44-51

 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
-John 10:14-16

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
-John 10:27-30

I've been reading John recently, and Jesus shares about who He is, what He came to do, and those that are called to Him. What an amazing grace to be called to know Jesus, to receive life to the full and be a Child of God :)

In the past week, I've been caught up with different things, things like a badly jammed finger and tiredness, lots of work and stress in my mum's biz, a yearning/hurt for recognition and affirmation.. I was really busy, and wasn't well. When I do have time, I know God was calling me to come to Him, but I didn't spend much time with God, and instead found temporal comfort in things of the world/flesh. However, passages from John, a friend’s post about coming to God just as His child, and the song No Longer Slaves by Bethel which sings "I am a Child of God", really comforted me through the week. Though I was not well, though I was stressed up, easily irritated, though I stumbled, I knew God loves me as His child and has called me to Him.

Today's worship and service was just amazing.. I was reminded that the greatest manifestation of God's favor is in the person of Jesus. Therefore, to encounter God's favor, come to Jesus. Jesus is indeed the good shepherd, who knows His sheep and His sheep knows Him. I'm also reminded that it has nothing to do with what I have or have not done, but everything to do with Christ. Even if you are the prodigal son, or the elder son, the Father just loves you. Just come into His embrace, just come to Jesus, for He says that He is the bread of life, the streams of living water that will never run dry. It is not the world, but it is Christ that will be enough.

It is not about my health, my position in Church, my finances, my mum's biz, my sins, my deeds, but that I am your Child, and I want to come to you before these. Let it be that "The Cross before me, the world behind me". So Father, I just want to come to find my comfort in you, to dwell in your courts even more. Let it ever be my yearning that I would rather be a door keeper at your house, than dwell in the tents of the wicked. But I don't have be a door keeper, for you called me your Child.

I am the sheep of Jesus' flock. I am a Child of God, and the world cannot take this away from me :)

You unravel me, with a melody
You surround me with a song
Of deliverance, from my enemies
Till all my fears are gone
I’m no longer a slave to fear
I am a child of God

From my mothers womb
You have chosen me
Love has called my name
I’ve been born again, into your family
Your blood flows through my veins

You split the sea
So I could walk right through it
All my fears were drowned in perfect love
You rescued me
So I could stand and sing
I am child of God