👑 We are Sons of God by Grace 👑 We are sons of God by grace; because the Lord Jesus brought this grace from the Father, and through the unity of the undivided divine essence which is opposed to division. He is one with the Father in essence, and He is distinct from the Father because He is the eternal Son of the Father, and for that very reason, i.e., the distinction of the hypostasis of the Father from the hypostasis of the Son, without us asking and without us saying first and second; because numbers do not at all express the essence of God, and even when we say "God is one," we do not mean the number one, but we mean "unity." Thus, the distinction of the Son from the Father became the basis for the distinction of believers: each distinct from the other according to the words of piety of the apostle when he taught us the distinction of the members of the one body according to the mystery of Christ (1 Cor 12:11-12). And if we are distinct as members of the one body, we are also distinct from the Son, and this is a distinction of grace; because we are not sons of the Father by a perfect equality with the Son according to the divine essence, but we are sons of the Father by a perfect equality according to the richness of God's love who loved us with the same love with which He loves His only Son, without any of us being the only begotten Son, but rather sons by grace. Here we perceive the surpassing goodness of God who loves the creatures from nothingness with the very love with which He loves His Son, and does not make the difference and distinction between the only begotten Son and the believers a reason for lesser love; because love is not calculated by quantity nor estimated by quality according to its work, gifts, and outpouring from God, but it is calculated by quantity and quality among sinful humans. For that reason the Lord Jesus Christ said: "that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them" (John 17:26) and also: "You have loved them as You have loved Me" (John 17:23). Thus, we are in Him because of the union of the humanity which distinguishes us from the divinity of the Son, and He is in us because of the Father's love for us, i.e., the very love of the Father for the Son. Here all the heavenly powers cry out with indescribable amazement because those who are from the dust of the earth have become beloved with a supreme, eternal love that does not divide, and the creature has become like his Creator according to love, and not according to essence, and has become beloved with the very one love of the Trinity. #SonshipByGrace #Trinity #DivineLove #Adoption #Theology