Who is Your Daddy?
Good Morning Friends,
There are different kinds of fathers. There are birth fathers, who can be really great, family fathers through adoption, who can bring great healing, historical fathers of countries and institutions, who have created the culture in which we live, surrogate fathers that serve as role models… but the most important I believe is our spiritual father, in whom we live and breathe and have our very being. Friend we all need to get to know our Father in heaven better.
That is why today we ask the question, Who is Your Daddy?
Scripture: You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption.
Romans 8:15 (NRSV)
So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.
Galatians 4:7 (NRSV)
Message: Some of my friends have chosen, as part of their journey of faith, as part of being in the family of God, to adopt children from China with medical conditions. Others are choosing to adopt children in the Foster Care system. It is not an easy road but it is most assuredly an act of great faith. For youth without fathers in the home the statistics twenty years ago were pretty grim. Then these youth were
• 5 times more likely to commit suicide
• 32 times more likely to run away
• 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
• 14 times more likely to commit rape
• 9 times more likely to drop out of school
• 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances
• 9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution
• 20 times more likely to end up in prison
Today, thanks to the undergirding of the authority of God through relationships forged in mentoring programs and outreach of many people in all sorts of schools and churches, the prognosis is improving. The question though is whether you and I are part of the solution, for no program is going to save these kids in and of itself. It all gets back to the question of the day. It all hinges, I think, on knowing the glory, power, majesty and authority of the Son of God who allows us to come into the presence of God the Father in joy and without fault. Friends, we are to be recognized as the children of God. We are to live as God’s own. We are to reflect Christ through our actions in ways that helps others to come to see their spiitual Father.
Pray we help others recognize their family resemblance as children of God. Pray we realize and share with other that all those in the family of God have a Daddy that loves and cares for us. Pray we rejoice in the great inheritance made possible through Jesus.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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