"விதைகளின் உள்ளே" 🌳
“Within the Seeds” 🌳
📖 Bible
Meditation No. 1820
🔆 AATHAVAN
– Saturday, 31.01.2026
“See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” (1 John 3:1)
Once, the son of a king met with an accident during a sea voyage and was washed ashore on an island in the middle of the ocean. The people living there did not know that he was a prince. They assumed he was merely an ordinary sailor who had lost his way. Out of compassion, they shared with him the little food they themselves ate and allowed him to stay in their humble thatched houses.
He lived among them for several days. Gradually, they began to treat him as one of their own, even making him work for them. At that point, he reflected on his former life as a prince. He was deeply troubled, thinking, “How honorably I lived as a royal prince, and now I am trapped among these ignorant people.” Though he tried to explain his true identity to them, they refused to believe him.
The reason was simple: those people did not know the king, and therefore they could not recognize the king’s son.
In the same way, our Lord Jesus Christ lived in this world. Even today, a person who knows God lives among people who do not know Him. It is no surprise that a world which does not know Christ also does not recognize us. This is exactly what today’s meditation verse declares:
“The world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
Those of us who have been saved by Christ experience God speaking with us and walking with us. This is the great love the Father has bestowed upon us by calling us His children. In other words, we are the own children of the God who created the entire universe. Because He loves us, He relates to us personally. But those who do not know God in their daily lives neither understand this nor recognize us, even when we speak about it.
Therefore, we are like that prince living in this world. We are aware that we have a heavenly Father, but seeing our humble earthly condition, the world looks down on us or considers us as just one among them. We cannot make them understand who we truly are, because they still do not know God.
Yet, God grants us revelation about the people of the world and its ways. Not only that, the Lord Jesus says that we are those whom the Father has given to Him. Therefore, He has already prayed for us:
“Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17:24)
The world does not know us because it did not know Him. But the excellence and glory of our lives lie in this truth: Christ knows us. Yes, this is our true honour. Moreover, He has prayed to the Father concerning our future, saying, “that they also may be with Me where I am.”
Therefore, let us not be troubled by the rejection of the world or by the lack and limitations we experience compared to others. Instead, let us continue to abide in the love of God. It is no wonder that the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize Him.
God’s Message: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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