Fourth Sunday of Easter

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

We are all children of God. We are all loved by our Heavenly Father from the moment we were conceived by Him through all of eternity. And as children of God, we are called to be His first and foremost. Everything in and of the world needs to come second. Jesus taught us how to be good and faithful servants by loving God with all our hearts, minds, and strengths and others as He loves them. The world doesn’t understand us because we are willing to walk in the sacrificial footsteps of Christ, giving up all we have in order to do God’s Will. We might not be asked to sacrifice everything, but we must be willing to do so. If we have this attitude, then we shall be like Christ, full of the Spirit, and we shall see God as He is when we are called to heaven to be with Him, forever.

Are we acting like children of God or children of the world? How can we know, love, and serve God with our whole being? What are we willing to sacrifice in order to be good and faithful servants to Him?

O Lord, thank you for adopting us as your children.

Amen.