Why do you think we talk so much about being children of God?
Reflect for a moment about your own understanding of Heavenly Father and your relationship with Him. Consider what blessings you have experienced and can experience in the future because you are His child. Think about what could be different in your life if you knew Him better and felt closer to Him.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits, and live?" (Hebrews 12:9)
Human parents transmit physical characteristics to their offspring, but our spiritual attributes come from God, for He is "the Father of spirits." Paul recognized that all men are "the offspring of God" (Acts 17:29), and that each man is still "the image and glory of God" (1 Corinthians 11:7).
Thus our spirit/soul nature, as distinct from our body of physical/mental flesh, has come from God, who created it and united it with our body, evidently at the moment of physical conception in the womb. It is obvious that the "image of God," man's spirit/soul nature, could not be transmitted genetically via the "genetic code" and the DNA molecules, for these are simply complex chemicals programmed to transmit only the physical and mental attributes of the ancestors to the children.
Nevertheless, the spirit/soul attributes of each person also seem to be associated inseparably with the body from conception onward, continuing so until separated again at death, when the spirit goes "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8), leaving the body behind.
In the meantime, however, the "image of God" in man is marred by its incorporation in man's "sinful flesh," for "the body is dead because of sin" (Romans 8:3, 10). By this union of flesh and spirit, man inherits Adam's fallen nature as well as his mortal body, and both are in need of salvation. Christ "gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity" (Titus 2:14). Therefore, we, like Paul, can pray that our "whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Lord, You are my Father, the Father of my spirit. In this You are the Author of my being, as I am formed in Your likeness, in Your image. I am also born again by Your Spirit and adopted into Your family. I am Your child by regeneration and adoption.
It is a blessing to know that I am not like the beasts You created. I know that I am created in Your image, and that man is the only aspect of creation adorned with that attribution. You are life itself, and the giver of life. You are the Father of all spirits, and I adore You for giving me life.
Lord, You made man from the dust. You gave life to man that you created. For this reason, You are the only one who can save man from death. “Salvation is of the LORD,” (Jonah 2:9). We cannot save ourselves, for You are the Father of spirits, the Father of life everlasting.
Keep Your Love on Friends!
Love Always, Lindsay Rose 🌹
Day 21: Father of our Spirits