成為神的兒女

溫馨

當祂來到這世界，那是照亮全人類的真光。祂已經到了這世界—祂所創造的世界—這世界卻不認得祂。祂來到自己的地方，祂自己的人民卻不願接受祂。

然而，任何一位接受祂的，甚至只是真正相信祂的名的人，祂給了使他們成為神的兒女的權利。這些人的重生，並非出於肉體之軀，或是人的衝動或安排，乃是由神而來的。

所以神的話語成了一個人，活在我們當中。我們都見過了祂的充滿了恩典和真理的榮光，正是天父的獨生子的榮光。

That was the true light which shines upon every man as he comes into the world. He came into the world - the world he had created - and the world failed to recognize him. He came into his own creation, and his own people would not accept him. Yet wherever men did accept him he gave them the power to become sons of God. These were the men who truly believed in him, and their birth depended not on the course of nature nor on any impulse or plan of man, but on God.

So the word of God became a human being and lived among us. We saw his splendor (the splendor as of a father's only son), full of grace and truth.