What are Your Rights as a Son or Daughter of God?
We must begin by understanding what it is to be a child of God. That is a continually developing truth for all disciples of Jesus. First of all we must believe the principles we listed on a link titled “Four Spiritual Laws.” Biblical Explanation for these Laws
We must believe Jesus when He said, “I am the way the truth and the life.” Only one road leads to God. One must believe that God is and there is no other. We must bow before Him asking Him to forgive us for ignoring Him and living our lives seeking our own way and putting our fulfillments first.
There are two goals in life, God’s target and man’s target. In archery (Old English – the days of Robin Hood) to miss the target was to have “sinned.” The King James Bible used that term for failure to meet the goals of God.
Most of us sin often even in trying to reach or hit our own goals, but when we fall short of of those goals that God has set for men and women those are Spiritual Goals that bear eternal consequences and we are going to be judged by Him some day for that unless we have repented and asked for His forgiveness in the name of Jesus.
The understanding of that and our desire to follow Him and His teachings is what makes us a disciple. Two disciples wanted to be the closest to Him and asked if one could sit His right hand and the other at His left. Jesus didn’t tell them it wasn’t a worthy goal they had set for themselves. He simply explained that it wasn’t in His authority to grant, but the Father’s.
One other example of a great disciple is Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament. He says, regarding his goal, “I do not claim to have attained the goal (hit the mark yet); but this one thing I do, forgetting the things I have done and all my past I press toward that goal that is ever set before me. Paul was one of the most mature and seasoned “Children of God” and he admits there was still much he had yet to learn and understand about being a child of God.
Even under the best of circumstances - with the most loving father and mother, we still understand they had their shortcomings. If we happened to have grown up with parents who had their ups and down (and in some cases more downs than ups) it is really hard to get a proper understanding of a relationship that is always positive and loving. (Read Jerimiah 29:11)
It will take varying time periods for each of us to develop our personal relationship with our heavenly Father because our relationship with our earthly father will so often over shadow it.
My wife grew up in a very loving relationship with her Dad. She often told me she could go to Him at any time she wanted and just hop up in His lap.
I, on the other hand, grew up with a very good and hard working dad who never communicated his feelings at all. He never touched me other than to discipline me.
You can see we each had a very different view of what a relationship with a father meant and how that carried over into our thoughts of how to approach our newly acquired Heavenly Father.
We all need help and that is why ChristianAdvocates was formed. To help you come into relationship with God and then as a “little brother or sister” to pull you close into your new family and help you “make it!” We can do that together.
As The Obedient Child we always have access to the Father. The book of Hebrews teaches us as children we have the right to come "Boldy into the Throne Room of God." And the father of the prodigal son turned to the unhappy brother and said, "if you had ever wanted anything, all you had to do was ask!
Here’s the great news! If you are the rebel who ran away from all authority or you are the obedient, faithful one; you are both still loved and accepted. If we repent and ask, God forgives and accepts. All we have to do is ask. The only one who fails to be granted access to God is the one who does not come to him.
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