Do you have trees with green leaves where you live? Maybe that sounds like a dumb question, but here in central Pennsylvania the leaves of the trees are beginning to change color. We are seeing red, orange, yellow and even purple leaves. Green is not the actual color of these leaves, but rather, green is the color of the chlorophyll that these leaves produce as food. It takes the change in season to see the true colors of the leaves on different trees.
As I looked around this morning at some of the different, vibrant colors on the trees, 1 John 3: 1-3 came to mind. See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. And every one who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Have you ever considered that what you truly are cannot be truly seen here while you are alive? What you truly are will not be revealed until you are with the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven or when He returns to take His bride home. Although you may be a student, a husband or wife, mother or father, son or daughter, teacher, mechanic, plumber, construction worker, secretary, pastor, missionary, boy or girl, that is not really what you are. Only God sees you as you really are, and one day you will see what you really are because, if you are trusting Him for your salvation, you will be like Jesus.
The LORD bless you with being the righteousness of Christ.
I love you,
Ruth
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