John 1:9-13

John 1:9-13 vs 10 He was in the world and the world was made through Him and the world did not know Him. Jesus came and was here on the world that He created. Because through Him all things were made. Nothing that has been made was made apart from Him. And yet we didn't know Him. It is still the same today. Many of us don't recognize our creator when we encounter Him. We have been made by Him and yet we ignore Him or worse, discount Him. vs 11 He came to His own and those who were His own did not receive Him. God had called out the nation of Israel to be His chosen people. The ones set apart for Himself. And so He came to them in the flesh and they are the ones who rejected Him first. They shut their doors in His face. They went after Him and brought about His death. And the sad part is we would have acted in the same way. vs 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God. It was by God's will that were are born and brought into His family. When we receive Jesus we are given the right to become children of God. Which means that without receiving Jesus we do not have the right to become children of God. We may have been born into this world in the flesh because of the will of people but we are born into God's family because it is God's will for us.