Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
Behold the condescending love of the eternal Father, that He is not ashamed to call us sons, we who by nature are heirs of sin and curse, by practice children of corruption and ingratitude. The world does not know our dignity or advancement; walking by sight, it cannot perceive what we possess in Christ or what we are entitled to.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 John 3:1-3
As if the apostle had said, "Although the world knows us not, affects us not, esteems us not, because of the weakness of our grace and the strength of our corruptions, yet notwithstanding both these, we are now the sons of God; this is the happiness of our present condition, we are as children in their minority; we are not grown up for the inheritance...
Section IV. — Fifthly, a mystery in regard of the kind of knowledge which the saints themselves have of it. First, 'Their knowledge is but in part, and imperfect ; they know little now, in comparison of what they shall know here- after.
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20