“Are you all children of God here?” was a question asked by a gentleman who called on some ladies that were visiting together. One lady replied, “That is what I am trying to be every day.” “May I ask your name?” he said.
“Mrs. E,” she told him.
“And you were always Mrs. E?”
“No,” she replied; “only since I married Mr. E.”
“And since then you have been always trying to be Mrs. E?”
“No!” she again replied, “I am Mrs. E.” “Tell me,” he asked, “what is it that makes one a child of God?”
“Faith, or believing on the Lord Jesus Christ,” she replied.
“Do you believe on Him as your own Savior?”
“Yes,” she replied.
“Then are you a child of God, or are you trying to be one?”
“Well,” she said, “I see my mistake. I did not see so clearly before that I am a child of God.”
We may try to walk worthy of the Lord unto all well pleasing, but we need to first realize that our relationship as children of God is firm and unchangeable. We are already made fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. (Col. 1:1212Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: (Colossians 1:12)).