Orange Moon Monday, June 16, 2025 "Our Father"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

"Our Father"  

    The Lord Jesus Christ taught His disciples (and all believers through the ages) to pray unto "Our Father" (Matthew 6:9).  While the "our" refers to believers' relationship with each other, the even more wondrous gift of grace involves our familial bond with God.  

     "I ascend to My Father and your Father" (John 20:17).

     Christians are brothers and sisters with the "from everlasting" Son of God (Psalm 90:2).  Certainly, the Lord Jesus holds a distinctive being and place as God the Son which no other occupies.  It remains true, however, that His redeeming work on our behalf and subsequent presence in our hearts spiritually births believers into a relationship with God so near that angels desire to gaze upon such a wonder (I Peter 1:12).

    "Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying Abba Father" (Galatians 4:6).

     From sinful rebels to sons and daughters of the Father, brothers and sisters with the Son, through the enlivening agency of the Holy Spirit's indwelling presence - this is the gift of relationship and freely granted grace to all who trust the Lord Jesus.  Family.  With God, and in Him.  Even a cursory consideration of "so great salvation" must stop our hearts and minds in their tracks when we reflect upon "God's unspeakable gift" (Hebrews 2:3; II Corinthians 9:15).  Moreover, when we consider the sacrifice and the cost that made possible the believer's privilege to pray "Our Father" with the Redeemer and His redeemed, the matter becomes utterly staggering in its magnitude of mercy…

    "He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians 5:21).

    The Son became sin, that we might be born again into sonship and daughterhood with God.  The Lord Jesus prayed for such gift to be given (recorded in John 17), and then journeyed unto Mount Calvary and into the wrath of God to pay the terrible price that made possible the the glory of these "unsearchable riches" (Ephesians 3:8).  Presently, we give our awed, grateful thanks and seek to live in the wonder of such grace for the glory of God.  In eternity, we shall know such things much better than we presently consider as the marvel of our family bond with God will thrill us even more.  Never, however, will we fully discover "the hope of glory" made possible by the Lord Jesus, nor its inestimable cost.  ""O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!" (Colossians 1:27; Romans 11:33)

    We won't think about this every time we pray, "Our Father."  We do well, however, to at times still our voices and hearts as we express ourselves in such familial terms with the eternal and infinite God.  As one once said, "From dust to glory, what a story!"  And what grace beyond all wonder, a grace we must seek to more and more access in order to more and more honor its price and the One who paid it.   "Our Father…."

"Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."

(Galatians 4:7)

"As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name."

(John 1:12)

"Now are we the sons of God."
(I John 3:2)

Weekly Memory Verse 

     "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."

(Galatians 4:7)

  

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