We are God's kind

In God’s creation everything was created according to its kind (Gen. 1:12,21,24). How about us? We are created according to God’s kind (Gen 1:26)! Strictly speaking there is no mankind, because we are God’s kind, God’s species.

Psalm 82:6: I said, You are gods, and all of you are the children of the Most High. Jesus confirmed this verse by quoting it in John 10:34. Christians have no problem with claiming “We are children of God”, but many have no boldness to claim that we are God’s kind. Indeed, we are becoming God in life and nature (Col. 3:4, 2 Peter 1:4), but not in the Godhead.

God is light and we are children of light (John 12:36). Even we shall shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of our Father (Matthew 13:43). God is holy and we shall be holy as He is (homework: find the supporting verses)! We can not become an object of worship, nor do we have the power of creation, but we are becoming God in life and nature.

What constitute a monkey kingdom? Monkeys. What constitute a dog kingdom? Dogs. What constitute the kingdom of God? Those who are becoming God in life and nature. If you walk like a dog, bark like a dog, react like a dog, what are you? You are a dog. If you think what God thinks, feel what God feels, choose what God chooses, what are you? You are God in life and nature!

Paul says, For to me to live is Christ (Phil 1:21)! Paul was becoming God in life and nature! Paul expressed God in his living and represented God in his service. Representing God does NOT mean controlling or lording it over others. It means bringing God to people and bringing people to God.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and we are. Because of this the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is. And everyone who has this hope set on Him purifies himself, even as He is pure. (1 John 3:1-3)