Holy Spirit help me realize who I am as a child of God...

1 John 3: 1-3
                                         
The compliments or complaints of others do not define my being. Rather it is the truth of who I am as a child of God, set apart as I was at my Baptism as a member of God’s family, that defines my being.  As a child of God, like my Father, through the Holy Spirit at work in me, I have  many divine attributes.  Like Christ Jesus, I have a great capacity to be pure and holy; to create and make right; to heal and to call to life; to forgive and to love; and to point others to the Good News of the redemption of Christ Jesus, and the absolute truth of God’s mercy and light.  Will I live into this inheritance? Holy Spirit, help me real-ize who I am as a child of God.
 
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?  And who shall stand in his holy place?  Someone who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up their soul to what is false   (Psalm 24:3,4)  
                                     
The saints live not after the fashion of the world.  The dignity of the saints is so great because they are not this world, but of the household of God.
― St. Thomas Aquinas
 
For an interesting meditation on welcoming God into life, see Robet Boyd Munger’s My Heart Christ’s Home, https://www.usna.edu/Navigators/_files/documents/MHCH.pdf
                         
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