God is our Father forever

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Help us to enjoy the sweet privileges which come to us through being introduced into your family."

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SpurgeonBooks
July 08, 2024

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on adoption. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our Father in heaven, it is an intense joy for us to call you by that endearing name, for it is no mere empty title. We feel the spirit of adoption in us “whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” We feel the nature of God in us, which has been given us by the Spirit of God, the quickening, the renewal, the being born again to a living hope. Oh Lord, we thank you, that we are your children by regeneration as well as by adoption, that we have been made partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust.

We revel in the thought that now it is given to us to become the sons of God, even to as many as believe on the name of Jesus, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Help us to enjoy the sweet privileges which come to us through being introduced into your family. May we be among the number of those who dwell in your house and go no more out forever; who must be still praising you, because they are always within the precincts of their great Father’s house.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will
” (Ephesians 1:5)

The chosen ones are adopted; they become the children of God. The universal Fatherhood of God is a doctrine totally unknown to Scripture. God is the Father of those whom he adopts into his family, who are born again into his family, and no man has any right to believe that God is his Father except through the new birth and through adoption.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Adopted and Adoption

God invites us to know him as a Father, because he has adopted us as his very own sons. This theological reality should absolutely control the way we live every day. Christians should be devoted to radically caring for orphans, even adopting them as our own.

In Adopted for Life by Russell D. Moore, you’ll find an incredibly encouraging book that will leave you amazed at God’s mercy to adopt us as his own and a counter-cultural call to selflessly pursue adoption in our own families.

This book is be a helpful resource for couples considering adoption — but it’s maybe even more helpful for those who haven’t considered adoption, that we might be challenged to see how central this is to the heart of God.