If we are born into God’s family, it is a miracle of mercy!
It is one of the ever-blessed exhibitions of the infinite love
of God which without any cause in us, has set itself upon us.
If you are this day an heir of heaven, remember you were
once the slave of hell. Once you wallowed in the mire.
If you should adopt a swine to be your child,
you could not then have performed an act of
greater compassion than when God adopted you!
And if an angel could exalt a gnat to equal dignity
with himself, yet the gain would not be such a one
as that which God has conferred on you.
He has taken you from the dunghill,
and he has set you among princes!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Acts 26:18 ... To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Galatians 4:6-7 ... And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Romans 5:8 ... But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 1:5-6 ... Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. ❤
