Quick Summary:

Family histories can turn out to be pretty messy things. People don’t always make wise decisions. Fathers—and for that matter, Mothers, too—don’t always behave honorably. Promises get broken. People get hurt. Fates get entangled as we fall into each other’s lives and fall out again. And in trying to unravel all the why’s and how’s and what for’s we can end up with lots of dead-ends and unanswered questions. But—GOD KNOWS ALL ABOUT THAT STUFF! Nothing about us, about our past, our family tree, is hidden from God.

Perhaps that’s one reason why God offers us, in the words of Paul, a promise that is grand enough and inclusive enough to overcome all those nagging questions we carry inside us about our worth, about who we are, where we came from, and where our lives are headed.

YOU HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO GOD’S FAMILY, Paul tells us, AND EVERY TIME YOU CRY “ABBA –- DADDY” THE SPIRIT WITHIN YOU CONFIRMS YOUR TRUE IDENTITY.