Though people come from a thousand different backgrounds, nationalities and neighborhoods, almost all have one thing in common. Nearly everyone knows what it means to live in a family. Some are complete, and some have key members missing. But having to live with a family is a fairly common denominator of all people everywhere. Maybe that's why God chose to explain our relationships with him as a family relationship .
Nothing is more understandable and lifelike than being in a family.
Think of all the emotions and experiences that you have had . . . It happens like that when you know Jesus, too. When you invited Christ into your life, you were born into God's own family. You may not have felt a thing, but a spiritual phenomenon was taking place that instantly made you God's child. God knows how tough it is for you and me to try to understand ideas and experiences we can't see.