What we will become hasn’t been revealed to us- 1 John 3
Acts 3: 12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3: 1-7; Luke 24: 36-48 In our reading from John’s letter today we are told that, out of God the Father’s great love for us, that we are now children of God. But God isn’t stopping here. What we will become hasn’t been revealed to us, yet. John says that when he is revealed, we will be like him. We hear a similar message elsewhere in the New Testament. Paul says in 2 Corinthians, “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor 3:18). Think about what is being said here. We behold the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image. Peter’s letter tells us that through God’s promises “you may become partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet 1:4). And the letter to the Colossians says, “… your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3). We are becoming partakers of the divine nature- wrapped in Christ, and because we are wr