John is writing the believer. The believer is different then the non believer as far as the issue of being God's son and daughters in this passage. All people are consider children of God in other scripture references as far as mankind. Yet in this case it only speaking of the believer. The world here would be those children of unbelief. Two direct classes of people segregated by belief in God. The world knows not God only their ideal of God. The idea of God is not always by the world an accurate depiction of who God is. In fact people have stories about God that does not depict his very nature of love. Now a time is coming when God's children will see God for who he fully is. As a believer we grow in the knowledge and grace of the truth of who God is. Our own opinion of God at times may not be who God is either. Our anger at God because of his ability to prevented, stop or cease something from occuring or happening, can cause human being anger, because we understand not God purpose of taking someone from us, or blaming God for one's situation that he did not change or prevent. As believers our cry of anger is human. Yet our humanity is the one thing that stops us from seeing a clear image of our Savior and Lord at time. Yet we have hope as believers there is a day coming when we will see Christ truly as he is. This hope in seeing Christ again purifies, not the hope of actually seeing him in it self but the Messiah is our hope. Our hope of his return testifies in our hearts of God's redeeming grace as a believer. It is the promise of yet to come and takes faith in God's redeeming everlasting Word.

If you talk to people without the hope of Christ in their hearts they understand only what they have been taught about Christ return, and they do not possess that hope in their soul has non believer. That hope is unique to the believer, because that hope is instilled in our hearts by Christ's Spirit, the Holy Spirit. When talk about belief with hope and belief without hope, that is non other then the devil. He has no hope of paradise because of unbelief in God's redeeming power. As I watch President Trump gloat over his acquittal, he began to judge those that did not vote party lines that did not back him and began reward those who did back him. It seems as if he bribed a few of his party to vote but that be hard case to prove, for the senators are sworn to do their duty and right to vote as they seen fit whether for or against, not based on party loyalities. I hope Trump did not do what I am saying and i do not believe in his innocents. I do not believe in Presidents Trump's innocents only in his ignorance of what he did that will always in my opinion make him guilty, by the House of Representatives. Yet judged by his peers he did nothing wrong. Satan atttitude is I did nothing wrong. His attitude of power is I did nothing wrong to deserve eternity in the eternal lake of fire. Yet Satan is more corrupt then any politician. Satan is more corrupt because of his attitude is he is equal to God and recognizes not God beyond the fact God exist. There people that believe in the existence of God but have no faith in God's plan of redemption or salvation. It nothing to walk down a street in small town American and find people that believe in God's existence, but do they believe in God's eternal plan of salvation through faith in him.

One of the greatest lies total by devils is that the devil was before God. I have heard it taught, and I thought I do not agree with it. Upon hearing it taught I had to research scriptural for verse in options. First the thing people need to know is God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit existed before the devil. Verse 8 says the devil sinned from the beginning. The question needs answering when was the devil created, when was his beginning. Better yet when did the devil beginning originate from the garden as he tempted Eve with fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Isaiah 14 claims Lucifer fell when he made his authority superior to or being equal to God. Did not the serpent do that in the garden. The serpent was like all the other creatures in the garden. He had knowledge of God and had a day of origin. Yet Christ was already their being first the word of God that would be manifested as God's only begotten Son name Jesus. From Satan origin his heart was evil, if we can say Satan had a heart of any kind. His very soul was bent on sinning.

Man is said to be evil. We look at a small baby and we see a bundle of joy and nothing evil present. Yet when they begin to crawl some children are just bad to the bone, where it comes from no one would like to say. They get into everything and anything from the minute they are able too. Yet with the right correction these children generally turn out all right. Satan could not be corrected apparently. His evil abided with him and still does today. Sin begins with the thought of evil action. There is no love in a person who intent is only evil. God is a God of love. God loves his people and those who follow after him in love. There people that follow God and they do not love. They desire proof of God so they stalk God's people in search of the reality of God. God reason to put on our Bible armor daily. Yet the greatest armor we must carry is love, and the sword of the Spirit.

The sword of the Spirit is God's word with power. That power must come by God's Spirit to have any effect. The Holy Spirit talks to the heart of man, the very place that Jesus knocks on to ask to be let in. At point do we fail to believe in Christ as believers if Christ is the one beckoning, talking to the very heart. Let say as a believer I do my part by extending my hand in love helping or aiding someone. Encouragement is an act of love, building someone up. There is a lot of builders in the gym I go too. They might not see themselves as builders, but they are encouragers to keep trying to not to give up. Sometimes it the attitude of at least you trying. Yet the past three months have been hard for me because I had to almost restart my exercising routine because of minor set back. I personally get frustrated. At the same time, I got the feeling others have failed as well only to push through those bad times. So even if I fail today, I might not fail tomorrow. As Christians on days we not that loving remember we have hope of a better tomorrow, to fight with love. Fight not with anger but with love. To correct someone can be love to help someone in some way can be love, but it not always. Sometimes it adds to the frustration. Love because God loved us and tried to protect us from the begining by His word.

Dear Heavenly Father, give us hope of a better tomorrow, knowing your love for us, help us to build others up in love and enable us to encouraging others to have faith because of our love for one another. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study for Devotion:

John 8:42-44 KJV
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.