For Love of Family

Rom 8:15-16  ~  Eph 1:4-6  ~  Rom 8:29

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Daddy.  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: ~ According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of His grace.   Wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.  ~ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,  that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.   

 

Jesus always refered to God in the informal, intimate, child-like tense as (Abba) meaning; daddy.   And indeed, we are all family, as the Spirit of adoption has grafted us into the household of God.   Without question, the purest expression, whereby God identifies and relates with His people is, as family.  That's how He sees us.   Not as an army, not as sheep, but as family.  Daddy is not looking for soldiers to advance in position/rank, who can command segments of an army, nor is He seeking someone from among the sheep to rise up and shepherd His sheep.  He is looking for children who know how to love one another as family!