See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
(1 John 3:1-3 ESV)
What God spoke to me in this is how we should set our hearts and our minds on our eternal bodies and eternal destiny. We are children of God destined for heaven with a spiritual eternal body like Christ's resurrected body. Out of this mindset comes a desire to prepare ourselves and purify ourselves to be like Christ, to become more and more like him. Not in order to earn heaven but rather to follow Christ as did his disciples pursuing God and his will more and more in this life as a step towards heaven and an eternity glorifying God.
God set my hope in Christ and being with you Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! God I pray that I would purify myself and you would do that work in me by the renewal of my mind and the conviction of sin by your Holy Spirit. I pray I would become more and more like Christ.
Amen
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