"You are the son of God!" Luke 4:41.
Words whose speakers Jesus scolded and shushed. Words spoken by demons. And why wouldn't Jesus let them speak? because, it says, they knew that he was the Christ. Words which, when Peter spoke them later, Jesus said were revelation from God. Words confessed by every believer in the two millennia since. Words giving rock-solid foundation for Jesus' kingdom. Yes, even demons believe, but they tremble too late at the Word of the Christ who casts them out of people. And out of heaven. Jesus will not abide identification by pathological liars. Whose child he is will become evident by his own character, by his obedience to God, by his good work, not by demon-induced miseries, by destroyers of human lives.
When we speak with a brother or sister today, we affirm together the base from which we rise to life: the Lord Jesus Christ. And, together, we express inexpressible thanksgivings to God, his father.
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