God has no grandchildren

 

GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN

 

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3:1 NIV).

 

There is no place in the New Testament that speaks of second-generation Christians, God's grandchildren. one lady boasted that her grandchildren were the sixth generation of the family to be members of their 275-year-old church. Their great-great-grandfather was one of the founders and their father had been on the consistory for forty-six consecutive years.

 

I hope she knows her grandchildren are not God's. Their long family record of faithfulness to that church is admirable, but does not give those children a favored status with God. Our relationship with God is purely a personal matter.

 

I have always appreciated the benefits of a Christian home, perhaps not as much when I was younger as I do now. I was taken to church when only a few weeks old. I don't remember anything other than going to Sunday school and church on Sunday. For years, my father was the volunteer church custodian. We were the first family to arrive so he could open the church and the last to leave after he closed up. During that faithful attendance, I learned many things. But one day as a teenage boy, I repented of my sins, received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and became a child of God.

 

Becoming a Christian is a personal matter.

 

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