Around the world, children who have lost their parents are placed in orphanages. Most of these orphanages are understaffed, overcrowded, undersupplied and just plain unhappy. The lives of children in orphanages are generally full of grief, pain and insecurity.
In a very real sense, the whole world is an orphanage, and every person either is or has been a spiritual orphan. They are spiritual orphans because they don’t know the abiding love of God the Father in their lives. Without having a sense of the love of God, their lives fill up with grief, pain and insecurity too.
In this sad condition, God has taken pity on them and has made a way that spiritual orphans, all the world around, can come to Him and be made His children forever.
A Lasting Relationship
In order to bring sinners into a lasting relationship with Himself, He sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, all the way to the cross where He gave His life as the one sacrifice for sin. When a sinner believes on the name of Jesus, their sins are washed away, and the Holy Spirit indwells them. The Holy Spirit sheds His love in their hearts, making them know God as their loving Father. Through faith in Christ, they become one of His children forever.
When God has such pity for poor spiritual orphans and is so ready to welcome them into His family, isn’t it a shame when anyone says “no” to His offer of grace and instead turns Him away?
Someday God will welcome each one into heaven who has his or her faith in the Lord Jesus. Heaven is where they will never again part from His love. The Lord Jesus told His followers, “In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:2-32In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2‑3)).
Heaven must be an utterly wonderful place, because the Lord Jesus has gone and “prepared” it, and all He has done in the past and all He will do in the future is nothing short of wonderful!
But those who refuse God’s offer of grace, when they pass out of this world, will have only the darkness and loneliness of hell to look forward to. Oh, there will be plenty of people in hell, but they will be lonely people, because there won’t be any loving friendship or good will found in the entire place. Those things are God’s gifts which He gives to us in this life, but when it comes to eternity, they are reserved for heaven alone.
When an orphan is adopted into a loving family, a future full of disappointment and bitterness is avoided. When a soul is adopted into God’s family, they avoid much grief caused by sin in this life, but they also avoid the pains of hell in the life to come.
The blessings God has reserved for those who believe on His Son are immense and long lasting. I don’t want to live without them, and I hope you don’t either. Won’t you believe on the name of Jesus that you might be adopted into God’s family and become one of His children forever? Thank God, He has pity for poor spiritual orphans and welcomes them into His family when they hear the gospel and believe in the Lord Jesus.