A Father to the Fatherless

God in his holy dwelling is a father of the fatherless. —Psalm 68:5

We are all, to some extent, the product of our upbringings. And no one grows up in a house free of sin. Whether our dads were there or not, and what they were like when they were there, matters. . . . We don’t need to hide that father wound.

We don’t need to pretend that we aren’t really that affected by our father’s absence. . . .

Not only is [God] familiar with our families, but he handpicked them (Acts 17:26). So, there are no family secrets with Christ. If anyone should be able to be honest, it should be those of us whose fathers were not what they should have been for us. . . .

God in his wisdom has already mapped out a restorative plan that will remedy the lesions of fatherless sons and daughters. He knows about those pieces of us that are broken, worn, weary and detached from half of our genetic inheritance. He has created a panacea that takes our broken pieces and makes them into something else entirely.¹

¹Finding My Father: How the Gospel Heals the Pain of Fatherlessness, 2021, Blair Linne

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Finding My Father: How the Gospel Heals the Pain of Fatherlessness by Blair Linne, ©2021 by The Good Book Company, used by kind permission. www.thegoodbook.com

Scripture taken from The CSB