What Do the Children of God Look Like?

John 1:12-13 - But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 

I've made mention on occasion about things happening in the spiritual realm that we don't even know about. There is a spiritual realm and not only is there a good one, there's an evil one.  There are battles taking place all around us daily between good and evil but we cannot comprehend it.

Again, Beth Moore in her study on Esther, points out something I just have to share. It continues a bit on Monday's discussion of reversal of destiny. What happens after we have chosen to reverse our destiny in Christ???

She suggests we try to imagine "the divine activities behind the scene. If we could only see what is happening around us in the unseen realm, our eyes would nearly pop out of socket. Don't you wonder what transpires in the unseen realm when someone accepts Jesus as personal Savior? Luke 15:7 tells us heaven rejoices over a solitary sinner who repents. Think about it. Angels party over human repentance! 

"So much that would thrill us lies beyond our sight. Covenant children of God are marked--even dressed--in ways obvious to both heaven and hell but invisible to man. I'm not at all sure we don't bear an inscription on our foreheads somewhat like the one prescribed by God for the plate of the priest's turban. The engraving "holy to the Lord" was the first thing people saw when they looked in the face of a priest."

I admit I had already written this blog before I wrote Wednesday's. Wednesday's was like a P.S. to this one. It was the sum of my emotions over being a covenant child of God, with that incredible inscription on my forehead and being engraved in the palm of the hand of an Almighty God. Incredible...amazing...

We've heard for every action there is a reaction. Well, for every good thing God does for His children, Satan reacts in like manner with something evil. Just as God is all truth, Satan is a counterfeit, he is all lies. His lies, however, may be temptations to our senses, things made to look good only to be considered bad.  Example: alcohol...seems like a good thing if it makes you feel good, gives you a courage you normally don't have, but too much of it and it's bad. Abortion might seem the thing to do for an unwanted child or to save face but not in the eyes of a loving, creating God. That child is God's and was knit together by Him in his mother's womb.

Beth went on to say just like we are marked as God's children, the devil does the same.  In the Bible it's called the mark of the beast: Revelation 13:16 - He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads. (Just give some thought to the idea of RFID chips...seems like a good, harmless idea, doesn't it? Could this be the mark referred to in this scripture?) In Revelation 14:9-10 we are told "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God..."

But let's just imagine what the children of God look like. Let your mind wander to a place beyond your wildest imagination. When one accepts Jesus into their lives and becomes a child of God, he becomes a joint heir with Jesus Christ. Our sinful nature is now clothed in righteousness. We have put on Christ (Galatians 3:27). We are born spiritually into the family...we are born again (John 3:3). We have inherited a place in heaven. In Esther Chapter 8  we see where Mordecai, after the victory over the death of the Jews, is given Haman's home and his title and he leaves the king's presence wearing "royal apparel of blue and white, with a great crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple."  These are the clothes that the priests of the Old Testament wore. We also see in Revelation those saints who have followed the Lord will also be given garments of white linen and a crown.  When we become one with the Lord, our great High Priest, we become priests and kings with Him. 

Too much to imagine? I find it hard myself. I don't see anything special about me but I'm aware of others who definitely take on the character of Jesus in the things they do and how they speak. It all comes little by little as we walk with Jesus and allow Him to chip away at the flaws in our character. I can be satisfied now knowing that God sees beyond what we appear to look like. When we become one of His children, He only sees us as who we have become, minus the lifelong clean up process! 

Matthew 3:16-17 - When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."