Received Home

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 174, Received Home.

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty. Second Corinthians, chapter six, verse eighteen.

Let that land. Don't rush past it. Feel the weight of who is speaking — the Lord Almighty — and what He is saying: I will be your Father.

Not "maybe." Not "if you earn it." Not "once you get yourself together." I will be. That's a declaration. That's a promise God Himself takes the initiative to make — before any merit of yours, before anything you've done or failed to do. This relationship doesn't begin with what you do. It begins with what He promises.

And look at what that promise holds: you are not merely forgiven and kept at arm's length, like someone who receives grace and is shown the door. No. You are brought inside. Son. Daughter. The Father's own family makes room for you at the table. Not as a guest. As a child.

Think about the difference. Servants wait for orders. Children belong. A servant approaches with the fear of getting it wrong. A child walks in because it's home. And God is not calling you into a relationship of distance, of earning, of "do what I say and maybe I'll accept you." He is calling you in. Your identity is already settled in the Father's heart. You can draw near without fear.

Now I want to say this carefully, because someone listening today is carrying a deep wound in exactly this place. Maybe your earthly father failed you. Maybe he was never there. Maybe the words you most needed to hear — "you are my son, you are my daughter, I am here" — never came. Or they came and were taken away. And the world has a way of pressing that wound deeper, of confirming the lie that you don't belong, that you are not enough.

But hear this: what the world took from you, or what it never gave you, the Father restores when He calls you His own. Your history does not define who you are. His voice does. And the voice speaking here belongs to the Lord Almighty — not a fragile father, not an uncertain one, not one who promises and disappears. His tenderness comes backed by every ounce of His power to keep His word.

That is the identity you carry today. Not what your past says about you. Not what your failures say about you. Not what other people have said about you. The Almighty Father said: you are my son. You are my daughter. And that — that — no one takes away.

So here is what I want you to do today, and I'm asking you earnestly: set aside five minutes. Just five. Open Second Corinthians six, eighteen. Read it out loud — not just with your eyes, with your voice. Let your own ears hear that promise come out of your own mouth. And then speak to God. Call Him Father. Thank Him for receiving you into His family. It doesn't have to be long. It doesn't have to be polished. It just has to be real.

You are a son. You are a daughter. Received home.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.