The apostle John in his first letter calls us to live in that love of the Father that makes us children from above, a love that makes us truly happy and blessed: "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!" 1 John 3:1.
And for this love we are participants in the divine nature, which is his perfect wisdom, to be children of God in essence is to be wise as God is wise, the spirit as a gift profoundly transforms the soul of man, the love of charity gives us a new consciousness in Christ. Love (Agape) in its true form comes from wisdom, which creates, orders, and builds everything in the universe.
The love of Christ is something beautiful to which we have to aspire, but we have to make an effort to receive it, as the gospel says at the end of a famous parable: "For many are called, but few are chosen" Matthew 22:14.
The Kingdom of God is a requirement, we cannot enter it if our logic is only to have a good time, without caring about the situation of our neighbor, our brother; even the book of proverbs anticipates the Kingdom of Heaven and gives us a form of the golden rule: "Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act" Proverbs 3:27.
And this maturity received by this perfect love, as explained by the apostle John, implies an eschatological hope, a special expectation, secure in the blessings that must be realized with the "son of man", that is why being a christian means being an alert person: "Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure" 1 John 3:2-3.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the action of the plan of salvation among men.
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