Do you know why you were created, why you have air in your lungs even now? When most people ask that question they are asking a question about purpose. Purpose is great and it is incredible and affirming that God has a purpose for you, but beyond that thing God wants you to do, why did he create you? I am convinced that reason is sonship, daughterhood. God the Father loved Jesus the Son so emphatically that creation burst into existence as a result. From before he ever said, “Let there be light,” to this very second right now, God has always had a reason for you. That reason is so that he can have one more son or daughter to love. He wants you in his family, at his table, a son, a daughter.

The enemy knows this all too well and, as a result of his own fall, he concocted a plan to destroy that connection between you and your father through the orphan spirit. He knows if he can distort your view of God the Father, you will never fully embrace who God is and who you are in him. Using tools like rejection, loneliness, anger, frustration, isolation, jealousy, pride, and more, he writes a narrative and whispers it into your ear so that every single moment of your life is viewed through the lens of that narrative.

The good news is that you were not created to be an orphan. You were made for sonship, for daughterhood and you have a brother in Jesus who not only died to cancel sin, but so he could offer you the opportunity to become again what, in God’s eyes, you’ve always been: family.