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Am I Born of God?

1 John 5:18 - We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. For any kind of relationship, commitment is of great importance. Without such, there is a tendency to fail to abide in each others covenant. This is not different in every Christian. We are in a marriage with Christ as the Head and we as His wife and family. His redemption, death, and resurrection —- the Gospel of Salvation, is our only way to be born from above (a.k.a Born Again or Born of God) that whoever have faith in Jesus will have the promise of eternal life. This is a promise that God cannot void by Himself as He is faithful and true all the time. But not in ours, as we are always stumbling in every temptations in our ways and ending up sinning against God. Apostle John has given us a great reminder to any man who were Born of God to keep away from sinning. This is the kind of identity (the true bap...

A Genuine Christian Is Free Of Self-Deception

When we were young, we were brought up by our parents to what they want us to be. Usually they groomed us to be the person whom they admired and hoped to become but didn't happen. They wanted us to continue the dreams they did not achieved. But I know that other parents wanted to bring out the best from their children and allow them to choose the path they want to take. Whether we like it or not, our success and failure are a product of how our parents guided and influenced us. It has no difference to what God's desire for us, his children. He surely desire to let us find our true selves whom God plan us to be. But most of the time, we want to be of someone else rather than simply be ourselves. There is no wrong in this attitude, if and only if this desire is also aligned to our capabilities, skills, characters, and God's will and purpose in our lives. Like our biological parents, God is so glad to see his children succeeding in their lives and to all the aspects of it. B...