Daddy God

Deuteronomy 12:18
He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Nothing is insignificant in God’s word.  Every word spoken points to Jesus Christ and His finished work in one way or another.  Sometimes it takes a little digging and some help from the Holy Spirit to discover it, but it’s there!  The truth is that the Holy Spirit enjoys helping us find Jesus in the word.  In fact, it’s His job (John 15:26 But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.)

If there is one thing that God is adamant about taking care of, it’s fatherless orphans and widows.  He actually says in James that “true religion” is taking care of the fatherless and the widows (James 1:27).  He says this to show that He is true religion.  True religion isn’t a set of beliefs and rituals; it’s salvation by grace.  It’s taking care of those who don’t have a father or a husband.  True religion is becoming the father and becoming the husband to the lost and lonely; it’s what only God can do.

Without God in our lives, we were like orphans: fatherless and without hope.  Without Christ we were like widows with no one to take care of us.  But Christ has become our kinsman redeemer; He has become our Husband and we are His bride.  Because of our marriage to Him, through grace, we have been adopted into the family of God.  We have been given the freedom to cry out to God, “Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15)

God has administered justice for us, that is to say, for our benefit.  It was for our benefit that Christ went to the cross.  It was at the cross that Christ bore the punishment for our sins; He took the burden and bore the sentence of death on our behalf.  Justice was administered to Jesus for us.  

When we were strangers to God, not knowing Him or His ways, He became a friend to us.  He suffered on our behalf and took us into His family.  It is because of Jesus that we have the freedom to call God Almighty “Daddy.”

Christ is the bread of life.  He is food for the mind, body, and soul.  When He went to the cross, He gave Himself for us.  He became all that we need.  He has been made for us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30).  All that Christ is and was has been freely given to us by grace through the cross.

He has become our food.  Not only that, He has given us clothing.  Christ has given us His righteousness as clothing.  He took our sin and wore it to His cross.  In exchange, He gave us His robe of righteousness so that our Father, God, can look at us and see a fully restored, fully redeemed, fully righteous son or daughter.  
God loves the fatherless and the widows.  He wants to be their Father and Husband.  While we were strangers to Him, or estranged from Him, He came to be our Savior (Romans 5:8).  He has taken us into His kingdom and freely given us food (Jesus Christ) and clothing (righteousness).  

That’s “Daddy God."