Thursday October 30, 2025 - Son of God, Son of Man

 Chapter 22: Son of God, Son of Man Day 5

Praying the Name:

1 John 3:1-4 -  Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of [a]God! Therefore the world does not know [b]us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

1 John 4:9-12 - 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

Father, 

    I praise You for calling us to You to be Your children through Jesus. We have the greatest love and opportunity to be Your children and to live for You and in You each day. I am so blessed for that love that held me together through such a tough time. 

    Thank You for loving us before time for the world to be created, for knowing us and loving us when Jesus died on the cross and when He rose again. It is a great and mighty thing for You to know all of me and I thank You for that love. You brought me to this time and place for a reason and I thank You even if I do not always appreciate missing bipolar for so long. 

    I know that I have issues loving others for some reasons and I am sorry. That is why I ask You to love them through me because I cannot get there to love them well on my own. I need You to love them through me. I am writing and praying for those people, but I just pray that You love them in me. 

    Please shape me into the image of Your Son and to pray with the love that Jesus has for His people. I ask that You help me to be the person You desire and the prayer warrior You can be proud of. I want out of this life and into a truly meaningful life for You online. 

    

     After Hurricane Katrina, most of what was left was debris, every beautiful and useful thing acquired over a course of a lifetime, had been suddenly transformed into a whole lot of debris. 

    I could not help looking around at the things I love in my own home, like the down filled sofa I bought from a friend, the rows of books, some of them autographed by the authors that fill my bookshelves, or the splash of bright white Cala lilies that brighten the corner of my room. 

    All of these and more would sooner or later be reduced to rubbish and though it crossed my mind I did not have the nerve to look in the mirror, to speculate what would one day happen to the face that looked back at me. I have felt in this year of disasters, from tsunamis to hurricanes to earthquakes that surly God is speaking reminding us urgently of truths that we should not forget, that material goods are not as important as we think they are, that life can change in an instant, that none of us will live forever, that now is the time to seek Him. 

    But what does it mean to seek Jesus? Whose favorite title for Himself was the Son of Man, One of the things that it means is to seek to be like Him, because Jesus shows us humanity as it is ultimately supposed to be. As the Son of Man Jesus is the ideal human being. While on earth Jesus lived with an unbroken connection to the Father because we are united to Him through the Holy Spirit we can enjoy the same intimate connection to our Father in heaven. 

    It sounds good in theory but what does it mean in practical terms? What does it mean when you have yelled at your kids for the umpteenth time like I did this morning, or when you are party to a messy divorce, or when you are struggling with an addiction or when you have just lost your job. What does it mean when you are weary, frustrated, and confused. It means that you take whatever mess you are in and bring it straight to Jesus desperate for His mercy, it means you open your soul to His healing cleansing grace. It means that you count on Him because you cannot count on yourself. 

    Join me today in yielding to God's Spirit, who is at work to rehabilitate the image of Christ within us. remember that your soul is the only indestructible thing within you everything else is fragile, temporary and passing. Then pray for the first five people you meet today. That God will open their eyes to what really matters in this world.