Easter 3 B - 1 John 3:1-7

1 John 3:1-7

There is no way around it. We all sin and are all guilty of lawlessness, even if in the love the Father has lavished upon us we are children of God now and when Jesus is revealed we will be like Him. That means even if we are children of God in the here and now we do not abide in God or know God or see God because we sin. But then John will go on to say, “This is love: not that we loved God but that God loved us…” (1 John 4:10) So despite our lawlessness God apparently loves us even if we do not love in equal measure and only purify ourselves with the hope that when we do see Him as He is, Jesus will not see us as we are but what we were always meant to be. Or as St. Augustine put it, "we are becoming what we already are; children of God.