My Father's Son

"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."
John 1:10 (KJV)

Do we ever know anything before we lose it?

On the way home tonight, as I was praying, I began to think of my father and just how much I miss him.  I was moved to tears as I realized that until I lost him, I didn't know just how much of me was wrapped up in him.  He was my daddy, the man on earth to whom I bear resemblance in my biological design.  But the scripture says that I also bear resemblance to my Father in heaven.  I am not, and cannot be me without my earthly father. 

And I believe that we are not, and do not also exist, without our Father in heaven.  Only, even as he created us in His image, we do not, and have not recognized him as such.  He, as Jesus, was born on the earth, taking on our distinctly human image and displaying the glory (the distinction of being GOD) of THE Father in heaven as though he were the ONLY one "begotten" of the Father (John 1:14).  In other words, it should have been obvious he was God.  Forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but we, also, were begotten (created) of the Father.  Originally.  We lost that when Adam fell prey to the Devil's deception and chose sin.  Because sin entered, we became dead in it and Satan became our father (John 8:44).  (I believe Satan's goal was to steal us from the Father, just as he did the stars of heaven {angels} when he fell [Revelation 12:4]).  Jesus came so that we who believe on him would again become sons of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:8).

So this all leads me daringly to the question, would we really know our Father if we had not lost Him?  Honestly, I don't like that question, nor do I have an answer to it.  Maybe it's just a bad question.  But seriously, I hate evil.  I hate hurt.  I hate what I've had to go through and what you've had to go through.  But for some reason, God has allowed it, and set himself apart from it as good.  Then, He has asked us to choose.  Seems too easy, really...  Nah, maybe "simple" is a better word.  The gospel is simple (2 Cor. 11:3).  Not easy, but simple.

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."  ~ John 1:12-13, emphasis mine ~