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Someone might remark, “I got my looks from my dad and my brains from my mother.” Perhaps someone else might remark, “You didn’t get your brains from me because I still have mine.” Family RESEMBLANCES are sometimes fun to note. Depending on what those similarities are that get handed down from one generation to the next we might laugh, smile, or cry. The RESEMBLANCES that are honorable and noble we may enjoy drawing attention to and even tell with fondness of the one from whom the characteristics came.

Jesus came onto this life’s scene through what would be seen as a humble birth. Though He came as a “PRINCE of peace” ( Isaiah 9:6) and to be crowned “KING of kings and LORD of lords” ( 1 Timothy 6:15), He grew up in the home of a humble carpenter. However, Jesus came to provide the possibility of a noble birth for us.

John wrote…
“(12) But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD. (13) WHO WERE BORN, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but OF GOD.” ( John 1:12-13 ESV)

Someone has said, “He who is born of God is certain to resemble his father.” [source: “sentence sermons”] What RESEMBLANCES are seen in our life? What likenesses do we share with our God? How much of His holy essence can be seen in the actions of our life? How much of His love is made evident in what we do and say? (note 1 John 4:7) Is there something about us that others could say, “Like Father, like child”?

As He is holy, let us also strive to be holy in all we do. ( 1 Peter 1:15-16) Such will bring glory and honor to our spiritual family tree.

Have a great day EXHIBITING THE EVIDENCE OF OUR NOBLE BIRTH!
Carl

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