1 John 3

Father, with joy and thanksgiving, I behold the love you have bestowed on me, that I am enabled and transformed into your child. The world, of course, does not know me, because it did not know Christ, but I have begun to truly know you.

I am your child, Father, now and forever. It has not yet fully been revealed what all I shall be in Christ, but I see glimpses of it in your word, and your Holy Spirit speaks to me of your glory and fullness of joy.

I know that when your day comes, and Christ Jesus is fully revealed, I shall be like him for I will see him as he is.

So now, Father, by your grace and presence and illumination, I am not deceived. I practice righteousness, and in Christ, I have your perfect righteousness. Jesus, your Christ, was manifested to destroy the works of the devil.

I have been born again. Born from above. Your seed is in me, Father, and I do not practice sin because I am in you, and you are in me.