A father to the fatherless, a defender
of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families. (Psalm 68:5,6)
On Fathers
Day my thoughts turn to those who have lost their dads, or even worse, those
who never had a proper father figure in their lives. I wrote in Day 161 about
my dad and how his life was completely changed (for the better) in the years
between when my siblings were born and when I was born. The Dad I grew up with
was a different Dad than the one they knew in their early years.
Today’s verse
reminds us that God fills the holes in our lives. If someone never had a good
dad, or if his father passed away before he was ready to say goodbye, God is there to fill that empty
space. If a woman has no husband, for whatever reason, whether he left, or died,
or she has just never married, God is there for her, ready to come to her
defense and supply her needs. God even has a family ready and waiting for the
orphan and the lonely. In love he has
predestined us to be adopted (Ephesians 1:4,5). The church is our new
family, the new children for the people of God.
Even when we
feel lost there is a place and a people for us.
Are
you fatherless? …widowed? …alone? God’s heart has room for you.
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