Hebrews 2:13: “Again He says, ‘I will be confident in Him,’ and again, ‘Here I am with the children God has given Me.’”

That is a powerful thing. Normally, when you think of children, you think of the process of giving birth. But here Jesus Christ is saying, “I and the children God has given Me.”

Look at what Jesus often says: “Little children… children.” We are the children, and even though He is our Brother, we are also the children God has given Him. We are His responsibility. Remember He said, “Of those whom You have given Me I have lost none except the son of perdition” (John 17:12).

So we are talking about a special relationship—a special relationship that comes from spiritual birth. We have been given to Christ as His own possession. “Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession” (Psalm 2:8). When you read “the nations,” think “people groups,” people from all tongues.

“I and the children God has given Me.” So we are God’s children, and of course we know that Jesus Christ is God. We have been given to Him. We are His gift. We are told that “He will see the result of the suffering of His soul and be satisfied” (Isaiah 53:11). We are the result of His labor.

Elsewhere He said, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit” (John 12:24). We are that fruit to God. We are the result of His labor. We are the output of the labor of His soul, of the sacrifice that He made. We are the beneficiaries of His sacrifice on the cross. We are the beneficiaries of the blessing; the curse came to Him, the blessing came to us.

“Unless a grain dies, it abides alone.” One grain of seed dies, and then it comes alive in multiple grains of seed. We are His output. We come alive because He died. That is the truth.

Again, this verse says, “Here I am with the children God has given Me.” Not “the children I tried to get for Myself.” The children God has given Me. And we know that Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44). So we have been drawn by the Father. We have been pulled to Christ by the Father. We are the people who have been brought to Him. We are the children who have been given to Him.

We have been given to Him as gifts. We are God’s gift to Christ. We are His possession. We are His own. Another picture Scripture uses is that we are the bride of Christ, and He is the head of the church, and we are the bride. As the One to whom we have been given, He is going to have for Himself a church without spot or wrinkle (Ephesians 5:25–27). How will He do that? He will “sanctify her by the washing of water with the word.” Remember how He prayed: “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17).

So I am saying: you are not just on your own in la‑la land. You are God’s. You are His child. You are a child of God. You are of the household of God, and Christ has responsibility for you. The growth, the Bible says, comes from Christ, from the Head to whom we all submit (Ephesians 4:15–16; Colossians 2:19). We submit to Him, and the growth comes from Him.

We are not charting our own path, just on our own. We are God’s. We are members of the body of Christ. We are Christ’s, and Christ is God. So we have a special relationship with Him. We have a special association with Him. We have a special connection with Him. And this verse is telling us: “Here I am with the children God has given Me.”

Nobody may know your name, but God knows your name and has given you to Christ. You belong to Him. Have that sense of belonging.

God bless you. See you later.