Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. (John 3:2-3)   Real purifying hope is not based on who you are, but upon who you will become. Right now, you are my child, but in the natural order of all things, a child doesn’t remain a child forever. Your hope must be in the fact that your own childhood is coming to an end, and…

“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)   It’s not that you don’t wage war, my child, you just wage it in a completely different way from the world. Your weapons are not only different, they are much more powerful than the world’s weapons; able to tear down strongholds…