My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.
The remaining Names of God in this series might be considered descriptors, or characteristics of the Lord. We have reviewed the three primary Names of God, along with nineteen compound Names of God in our previous posts. As we venture through these descriptors of our God, I hope we will recognize all the many characteristics of our God that we tend to take for granted.
The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly is a blessing.
May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.
| 141 |
| FATHER OF THE FATHERLESS |
| Psalm 68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. |
| When an child is abandoned by a father, he has no leader, no support, no strong voice to listen to, no example to look to. For both the son and the daughter, to be abandoned by a father leaves life long damage, a sense of not belonging, of living without purpose, for a child needs to seek favor, especially of his or her father. Single parent mothers seek to fill this void, and many make valiant efforts, but a child abandoned by his or her father will never recover fully from this abandonment. As the verse speaks of widows, the psalmist may be referring to the death of the head of a household. A tragedy in any estimation. Yet the claim of fatherlessness may also imply a chosen abandonment, a decision of the father/husband to leave a family behind. How terrible for the child. The good news though is that a faithless man in a child’s life may be replaced by a faithful God. As a matter of fact, this weakness, this pain and mental suffering may be used by the Lord to guide them into a relationship with a greater Father, a kinder Father, a loving Father. As those who read this blog may know, I lost my father to a train accident when I was very young. Bitterness, alienation, a lack of strong guidance and direction resulted in my falling into a deep hole of depression and rebellion. When a young lady directed me to the Father above, I could not resist, for the longing to have someone give guidance, to forgive me of my hatred, anger and sin, to love me despite how broken I was, – it was too much to resist. He is the Father to the fatherless, and such a good one. |
I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!
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[…] David continues the thought of God’s arising in relation to orphans and widows. I have recently wrote on this verse in the Names of God series for your reference. See Names of God – FATHER OF THE FATHERLESS – 141. […]
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