4 Elements of a Godly Vision
Why does God bless us? Why is God committed to us? Why does He work with us even when we make obvious mistakes, failing many times, and no doubt flawed at times with doing life? Because we are family.
Psalms 8:4-6 TPT [4] Why would you bother with puny, mortal man or care about human beings? [5] Yet what honor you have given to men, created only a little lower than Elohim, crowned with glory and magnificence. [6] You have delegated to them rulership over all you have made, with everything under their authority, placing earth itself under the feet of your image-bearers.
Psalms 144:3 TPT [3] Lord, what is it about us that you would even notice us? Why do you even bother with us?
Psalms 144:3 NIV [3] Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
Job 7:17-19 NIV [17] “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention….
2. Family
God sees you as His family. At the beginning He wanted a family, with many sons and daughters. You are His Family, you are part of the family He chose for Himself. He didn’t choose anything else in all that He created.
He starts with putting a man and woman together to procreate on their own. Just like He created man and woman in His likeness and image, He now enables man and woman to do the same, that is to create offspring in their image and likeness.
He begins mankind’s journey with a marriage/family and ends with a marriage/family. He uses this concept of marriage/family all throughout the Bible.
In the Old Testament they were identified as Israel. This goes back to where God changed Jacob’s name to Israel. They were even called the children of Israel. He identified with us by calling us His people, His children. He formed what is known as Israel today from a single family.
All the different tribes were formed from single family units. Of course to be a family there must be children. God’s plan was to have lots of children, many sons and daughters.
Sons and Daughters
2 Corinthians 6:18 NIV And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Moving into the New Testament, God never leaves the theme of family. Jesus is His Son, which shows His thinking is still family. Scriptures state He is the first born of many, which means there are more siblings in His family.
Hebrews 2:11 NIV [11] Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.
Romans 8:29 TPT [[29] For he knew all about us before we were born and he destined us from the beginning to share the likeness of his Son. This means the Son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become just like him.
God continues this theme of family by identifying us as Sons and Daughters. We are now seen through Jesus as His family, as His children. We are to see God as a Father just the way Jesus sees God as His Father. Scripture also states He gives us His Spirit by which we can say Abba which is the intimate way of saying “Daddy”. All of these speak of God being a Father.
Romans 8:15-16 TPT [15] And you did not receive the “spirit of religious duty,” leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the “Spirit of full acceptance,” enfolding you into the family of God. And you will never feel orphaned, for as he rises up within us, our spirits join him in saying the words of tender affection, “Beloved Father!” [16] For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as he whispers into our innermost being, “You are God’s beloved child!”
Romans 8:14-17 NIV [14] For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. [15] The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” [16] The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. [17] Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
He is a Father
He is a Father. No earthly Father ever loved His children more than God our Father loves His. He wants to teach and train you, raise you up as His own, as a Father would His children. He wants to teach us how life works, by His standard, His Words, His life.
In order for His family plan to work, God really and truly has to be the perfect Father. He must be the greatest example of a Father. He must be the standard for all fathers to model themselves after for their children.
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV [6] Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 NIV [6] Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6 TPT [6] Dedicate your children to God and point them in the way that they should go, and the values they’ve learned from you will be with them for life.
Jesus is God’s standard in raising up His children. To make sure we would understand this concept He sent His Son to show us the exact knowledge of life with the Father. Jesus is the perfect example of how a son or daughter is to be like. God the Father is raising you up the same as He did His Son.
His plan is family, having many sons and daughters, with Him being our Father.
