Every born again believer is born of God, and we have been predestined to be conformed into the image and likeness of God’s Son.
God’s goal for every one of His children is Christ likeness, and this process is to begin here and now. Only those saints that are embracing the discipline of the Lord will grow up into being a fully matured son of God.
Just as the glory of God was manifested through Jesus Christ during His Ministry on the earth, God desires to reveal that same glory in His matured sons and daughters.
All of creation is groaning and is anxiously awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope…
(Romans 8:18-20)