A TV game show emcee said, “Come up with the missing word at the end of the phrase and spell the word out to win our grand-prize. The phrase is, ‘Old MacDonald had a ------.’ Remember spell the missing word.”
Excited, the contestant answered, “Old MacDonald had a farm.”
The emcee said again, “Spell the missing word to win the grand prize.”
That’s easy,” said the contestant. “Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O.” Oops
First John says, See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed* we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
The KJV says.... Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the sons of God; therefore....
Behold is such a dramatic word, so much stronger than see; Yet so we are is so much better than therefore.
Behold, yet so we are the children of God. The world does not know us because it does not know him. It is hard for us to accept that we are the children of God because we see ourselves as the world sees us.
Behold, yet so we are children of God. That is so easy to read, so easy to say, but not so easy to do.
Like in that game show. We know the answer. So close, but, we just can’t get there. Our light is not quite right, our righteousness does not quite shine with the right glory. We can’t quite get it right.
Behold, yet so we are children of God. We don’t have to spell the missing word.
Behold, we are children of God. It is our present reality and life to come. We are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed.
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