God, who at
various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the
prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed
heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the
brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all
things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty on high… (Heb. 1:1-3).
I grew up without a father. My father abandoned my mother when she was
three months pregnant with me. He left
and never looked back. Any child growing
up without the blessing of a father knows the emptiness, rejection, and anger
that can accompany fatherlessness. We
are now living in a period where the majority of young people have grown up
fatherless, either by abandonment or neglect.
Since the higher courts of this nation escorted God out of public life
in the early sixties, several generations grew up without a true knowledge of
their Father in heaven. The toll has
been tragic, but hope lives, because the most unprecedented move of God the
world has ever seen is at hand.
