You Are One and Have Won in the Father

"I and my Father are one." (John 10:30)

Jesus spoke these words after relating to His hearers that He is the Good Shepherd (John 10: 11)

and

"I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. " (John 17: 23)

Jesus wants to impress on every believer that God the Father loves us as much as He loves His own Son.

How can this be? Through Christ's death, we have access by faith to God's grace, which makes us sons of God (John 1: 12).

We have received the adoption of children through Christ:

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 15)

and

"For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." (Ephesians 2: 18)

We are one with Christ in the Father. Moreover, in Christ we have won:

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8: 37)

and

"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place." (2 Corinthians 2: 14)

Meditate on this truth -- In Christ you are one and you have won in the Father!