What does it truly mean to be a child of God? Not just a follower, not just someone who knows the right words or shows up in the right places, but an actual son or daughter of the living God? That question sits at the heart of this message, and it cuts deeper than we might expect. Drawing from the opening verses of John's Gospel, we are invited to see that God's desire for a family did not begin with the New Testament. It stretches all the way back to the beginning, woven into the very fabric of creation. The promise of adoption is not a footnote in Scripture. It is one of the most foundational promises God has ever made. And like any foundational promise, everything else we believe and hope for is built on top of it. This message challenges us to ask honestly whether we are pursuing a genuine relationship with our Heavenly Father or whether we have quietly been constructing a version of God that suits our own preferences. The difference between those two paths, as we will discover, could not be more significant.
