Disbelieving in God’s transformative grace

If we cannot believe that God bestowed extraordinary grace on Mary before she bore the incarnation of God in human life…

… then we are not prepared to believe that in a spiritual life of faith God already makes us, also, his purified children.

And not only that. Soon we will even be like Christ. Restored exactly to his image and likeness.

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“If you consider that God is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure.”