Learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless...
-Isaiah 1:17
This verse truly says it all. While I was in Ethiopia and Uganda, the Lord began speaking to my heart even more in depth about those that are motherless and fatherless. In Ethiopia and Uganda, it's more common to run across someone who is literally motherless and/or fatherless. Maybe that is why when they hear about Jesus, it's so easy for them to receive. He comes and fills those places in the children and they immediately give him their all. When we are hungry and thirsty, the Lord truly does fill us.
I had the privilege of meeting numerous young girls. They immediately were able to relate to me, but it was nothing in and of myself. These smiles would come forth while we were singing or dancing, but especially when the name of Jesus was mentioned. There truly is power in his name. As those precious smiles would smile at me, I was grounded even deeper in this truth: God, precious Jesus, is the Father to the fatherless. When we catch his gaze, he pours that part of his heart into us. So, with every smile and every hug, the Lord was telling me how he was pouring his mother and father heart into these little ones. But even more amazingly, they were pouring that love into me.
Take the time to receive the mother and father heart of God. And give it to those who are truly motherless and fatherless.
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