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God's or Abraham's?

   The moment the word "children" appears, what comes to mind most the time is the result or outcome of a process. Especially when the psalmist was describing children in Psalms 127:3-5. My eyes were open to seeing results as children. Definitely, children have fathers. Let not go into defining children ( you can always read my post on CHILDREN), But my concern is that sometimes we (Christians) are referred to as Abraham's offspring and at the same time, we are called the children of God.

How are we children of God and also Abraham's? It is possible that we are the offspring of both God and Abraham (His friend). We are considered as Abraham's offspring when we believe (Galatians 3:6-8), because the first to exercise Faith in God was Abraham and we are called his children because we are doing exactly what he did which was counted to him as righteousness(John 8:39) - FAITH. So we (believers) are the re-produced version(children) of the Father of Faith - Abraham.

Now, as children of God, how are we connected. That's because we have Jesus who United both Jew and gentiles in one body - CHURCH(Ephesians 3:6). We have so many benefits as a body, in which sonship and joint-heirs in Christ are part of them. Jesus is the connection of Grace from the Father himself and the Holy Spirit as a Gift and Seal of redemption. It's a Grace work, we don't deserve this connection, but He counted us worthy to be children(Ephesians 1:5).

So, we have Abraham as our earthly reference of fatherhood and God Almighty as our heavenly reference of fatherhood. They were friends and had a covenant(Galatians 3:29). That is why are can be adopted if we are found walking in the footsteps of our father Abraham(FAITH), because it pleases our Father in heaven(Hebrew 11:6). SHALOM!!!
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