Son

DEVOTION
GALATIONS
SON
Gal 4:1-5
4:1 What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2 He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3 So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.
NIV
There is a difference between being a child and being a son. As a child of God I was in the world and bond to the rules of the world. I do live in the realm of the physical world, the present of what is all around be. But I also used to live according to the principles of this physical realm. I was enslaved to them, subject to them, and affected by them. I have no question about that at all. As a small child I lived in constant fear of the dark, until I grew up and learned in the army how to kill others with my bare hands. Yet, still as that kind of grown up I lived in constant fear of death. I know now it was due to not being a son. I know now it was because I was bond to the physical realm or this world and being only in this physical realm death was the end of everything. Death was for me the complete dead of existents, never ever being aware of having ever lived. But all that has changed. I am no longer a child bond to the physical realm. I am a son, a co-heir with Christ in the spiritual realm. I have all the rights of being a son of God. I now live in the spiritual realm, the true reality of eternal life. I can see the temporal realm of this world. It only exists for me to live in until I return to the spiritual realm God intended for me to be in. I am not bond to this world. Although I have many physical benefits, many things this physical world has to offer, I am not a slave to them. I am, in a sense a bond servant to my Lord, although he sees me as his son. What an incredible thought! God sees me as his son. He sees me as he sees Christ. Because of Jesus I have been rendered innocent of my past, present and any future sin. Not that I plan to sin, but it just might happen anyway. Yet God still sees me as his son and as such has given me the rights of being his son. How can anything else ever compare to that. How could I ever be distracted by any temptation of this world and return to this physical realm as a slave to it? No, God has given me the whole of his realm, of his kingdom. I have the key to the new city of Jerusalem. I am his son.