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Servants or Sons and Daughters
Everything that is false and deceitful will be revealed within the fiery furnace of the truth; it will vanish and disappear. It will abandon us so that we are left all alone, isolated and hungry—strangers in a foreign land where everything is spent without being replenished.
We stand guilty and condemned before the abundance of God’s love; through His love we experience our own unworthiness. We are drawn to the role of servants because it suits us; it satisfies us; we are comfortable in this role. But it does not satisfy God, who loves us so exceedingly and forgives so completely that we are crushed and melted by His boundless and immeasurable love. Before such a miracle, we weep for joy; our tears reveal the overflowing of our joy.
For this reason, the Saints, who are the children of God, call themselves the servants of Christ, since they feel that such a title [children of God] surpasses their worth and showers them with honor. To consider themselves otherwise, as children of God by grace, as honored persons in the celebration where the fatted calf is slaughtered, surpasses all human hopes, dreams, and expectations. This could only be initiated and fulfilled by the inconceivable and ineffable love of God the Father.