A reflection on 1 John 3:1-6
©️2025 Gloria M. Chang
See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him.
1 John 3:1-6
Destined for the Beatific Vision
Like meteorites accelerating toward the Sun due to gravitational pull, children of God speed toward sanctity the nearer they draw toward Christ. “No one who remains in him sins,” John writes. As particles vaporize in the Sun’s corona, sin disintegrates in the heart of the Son of God. Destined for the beatific vision, “we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
Children of God hurtling toward the Son
Grow pure for the beatific vision.
Traditional Chinese Translation
《我們將要像祂》
神的兒女朝著聖子的方向飛奔，
他們成長純潔為達到那美好的願景。