Spiritual Manna for Spiritual Warfare Series - Intro to Crow Healing ...

for, andaccepted by Him. The word of God says that we are adopted into thisfamily. Weneed a family to help us have a sense of worthiness. To free us to be theperson we can be, we experience God as His Son, who brought us truthandfreedom from guilt and sin. We are all "in Christ". In turn, His Son sentHisSpirit, the Holy Spirit, to give us courage, confidence, and guidance.We needour physical families and the family of God to feel a proper sense ofbelongingness, worthiness, and competence.To belong to God's family comes with a price. We have to have thehumility toaccept a king who was born surrounded by the smells of animalmanure. We haveto accept the profound simplicity of the gospel taught by Christ. No wecan'tstrut around like we are somebody great. The truths found in God'sword aremore profound than our worldly educations, but also simple andstraightforward. They are expressed in plain English such as "love thyneighbor as thyself", rather than the sophisticated obscure doublethinksopopular in our post 9-11 Owellian world, where even the definition of"is" maybe debatable and war is peace. Our value in life is that we are "inChrist".This is where we belong. This is who we are. Hold on to this simpleprofoundtruth.It is this deep sense of who we are in Christ, which strengthens us in thecoming storms. We have an identity they can't strip, no matter howmuch socialengineering they do, no matter if they throw us in prison, or even if theytorture us. We know that our family will not forget us. Our Father willkeeptrack of us, and will ultimately get us back home.