What we believe about God shapes what we believe about ourselves and each other.
Let’s take a moment to pause here and examine some truths that have been clouded over. The easiest way to remember truth is to take a deep breath, our direct connection to The Eternal.
Many of us were taught to approach God from a place of distance: as though we were born fundamentally wrong or broken. That teaching has shaped how we pray, how we judge ourselves, and how we relate to one another. It has formed us in fear instead of trust.
It’s time to remember and return to what has always been true beyond the noise, the shame, and the stories handed down to us through the generations.
Remember reveals a simple yet powerful truth: we were not born separated from the Creator.
You were not born a sinner as some people want you to believe. That belief is a great lie and delusion that has been passed down through generations, harming people’s lives and their relationship with the Creator and with one another. We all know, or have at least heard, the most quoted scripture in the Bible, John 3:16: “For God so loved the world…” If God loved the world, why would the Eternal create us as sinners?
The Creator never did!
Genesis 1:26–27 tells us that humans were created in the image of God, and verse 31 says that creation was very good. Genesis 2:7 teaches that we became living souls when the Creator breathed the breath of life into our bodies. That breath, spirit, is not separate from God; it is of God. God’s breath in our lungs is what makes us living beings.
We are eternal spirits, made in the image of God, living in mortal bodies. Ecclesiastes 12:7 reminds us that our bodies return to the dust, but our spirits return to the Eternal. This is why Yeshua quotes the Psalms, saying, “You are gods” (John 10:34–38). And just as Yeshua was a son of God, we too are children of God.
Take a pause and breathe deeply.
If this is true, then faith is not about becoming someone new. Rather, it is about remembering who we already are. This remembering requires our active participation.
Some believe Yeshua lived in oneness with the Eternal so that we would not have to do anything. That is far from the truth. He lived to show us the potential for oneness with the Eternal that exists in all of us.
“May they all be one as you and I are one,” Yeshua prayed (John 17:21). He desired that we experience the same unity he lived with The Eternal. He also said, “Greater works than these will he do” of those who believe and do as he did (John 14:12), because we too are children of God.
Yeshua promised that the Holy Spirit would bring to remembrance all that he taught (John 14:26). This gift allows us to access the wisdom the Eternal has already placed within us. When Yeshua said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9), he was naming our identity.
John affirms this when he writes that those who receive Yeshua are given the right to become children of God, born not of flesh or human will, but of God (John 1:12–13). Paul offers a third witness, saying that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and heirs with Christ (Romans 8:16–17).
We are born good. We are born whole. But the chaos and dysfunction of the world cloud our minds and cause us to forget who and whose we are.
If everything God creates is good, and if God’s power is unmatched, then a deeper question emerges. Why does the world look the way it does?
Everything the Eternal creates is good. There is no stronger power than God. Look at the order and function woven into creation; how nature works together to sustain life. If all of nature follows the Eternal’s design, why is there chaos, harm, and destruction in the world?
Might it be because when God created humans, we were given the ability to choose. We are free to choose between function and chaos, between serving self-interest or living connected to the Eternal and to creation as designed?
Many choose self-interest over God. In doing so, they create chaos, lies, and delusions for personal gain, harming others and teaching others to do the same. Through this chaos and deception, humanity loses the memory of who we truly are: children of God.
Paul speaks of this strong delusion in 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12. This forgetting that is not our essence. It is a condition we have learned.
When we remember our original design, our innate goodness and wholeness, living this truth becomes our way of life.
Through the Holy Spirit, it was revealed to Yeshua that he was to shine a light on humanity so that we could clearly see once more who we truly are: eternal spirits made in the image of the Eternal God, living out eternity connected to the Eternal God right now (John 1:4–5; John 8:12), not in some far-off place or distant time (Luke 18:29–30). Yeshua teaches that the kingdom of God is within us and all around us here and now (Luke 17:20–21).
He also illustrates our awakening to the truth that we are children of God through the parable of the son who took his inheritance early and left his father’s house. When the son came to the realization that he needed the father’s provision and returned home, he was received with compassion and restoration (Luke 15:11–22). In the same way, when we see the light and remember that we are children of the Eternal God, and when we return to live according to the Eternal God’s natural order, we are welcomed into connection, protection, and provision.
As we remember, we can live abundantly with the Eternal God, walking whole and free from the bondage and baggage of the lies and deceptions placed upon us.
Yeshua invites us to follow his example, not to admire or even worship him. “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest,” he says. “Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light” (Matthew 11:28–30). Yeshua desires to guide us and lighten our load as we walk through life. He also teaches, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it” (Matthew 16:24–25). Yeshua is not speaking of physical death, but of the death of the selfish ego that keeps us captive and causes us to lose sight of our original design.
He reinforces this call to lived obedience when he says, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matthew 7:24). The disciple John expands on this truth, writing, “If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him… Beloved, we are God’s children now” (1 John 2:29–3:3). Living as children of God sets us free to have life, and to have it abundantly.
The invitation is to live aligned. We don’t need to escape the world; we simply need to live in light of the truth. We can continually refuse harmful lies.
What heals us (and the world) is remembrance, not shame. What restores us is truth, not fear. What reconnects us is living as children of the Eternal, grounded in goodness, guided by wisdom, and choosing order over chaos time and again.
Life is about remembering our worth as God’s children. We don’t have to prove it; we just have to live it.
