Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song/lyrics with the group Avalon singing Orphans of God … poignantly singing of how God made us to be in family with Him as our loving Father.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Genesis 2:18 [NLT] … 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
… God created mankind to be in a familial relationship.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Genesis 2:15-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God created mankind - Adam and Eve - to be in relationship with one another, … a mirror of the relationship in the Trinity.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 68:6 [NLT] … 6 God places the lonely in families; He sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.
… God places mankind into relationship to set us free from our selves.
Reference Passage : … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus desires for all of His disciples to share His love with others … showing the love He has for all in His family.
Reference Passage : … John 19:26-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus, dying on the cross, wanted to make sure His mother, Mary, would not be alone but would always have His beloved Disciple, John, as her watchful son.
Reference Passage : … 1Timothy 5:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, instructing Timothy (and all Christians) to treat each other as loving family.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Peterson, used a story about a social trend to illustrate how God created mankind to be in a familial relationship. … The ODB author wrote: There’s a growing “rent-a-family” industry in many countries to meet the needs of lonely people. Some use the service to maintain appearances, so that at a social event they can appear to have a happy family. Some hire actors to impersonate estranged relatives, so that they can feel, if briefly, a familial connection they long for.
This trend reflects a basic truth: Humans are created for relationship. [see photo]
Prayerfully Christians reading with me here have come to realize that we were all created to be part of the family of God … just as God created Eve out of Man to provide Adam with the love and relationship in the God-Head (i.e., the Trinity). And going forward, sinful man has done much, in our flesh, with the help of Satan, to disrupt - or even destroy - that familial relationship. All we have to do is watch the evening news to see that.
But nonetheless, just as the group Avalon sings in the linked song, we were created by God to be a part of His family; and when we respond to fill the love hole that He placed in every person’s heart, by filling it with the love of God, we come into the kind of familial relationships we were designed to reflect.
And I pray today that all reading here know that - as the song sings - there are no orphans in God’s family; and, as the reference scriptures above attest, Our Loving, Heavenly Father - and certainly our Savior and His Spirit - want us all to share in the love the Trinity feels for One Another.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for bringing me into Your family to feel and share Your love with others.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me to reach out today to share God’s love and show others the love offered from God’s family. … Amen
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