Children in the House

Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God- children born not of natural or human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. Jn1:12,13

I am in Melbourne for business training and tonight I catch the ferry to Tassie to see my sister. I brought along a little book I picked up called 'The Compassionate Touch', a book written about a missionary in India by the name of Mark Buntain and his wife Maude. This couple lived in a tiny flat which housed many who needed a family.

The book describes how Mark would find many in filth and rags, living on the streets of Calcutta, destined for death. He would wash them, clothe them, feed them and take them to His complex. Depending on what age they were, He would educate, train, give them work and pay them. If he could see a talent that needed fostering he would show them the way. 

As I read I am seeing my God in action. He loves, unconditionally. He draws the lost to Himself and gives us a hope and a future. He heals. Mark established a hospital and many only needed simple help but one man had serious leprosy and had to be taken to a leper colony, however he found Christ and began to believe he could be healed and was healed.

The greatest healing anyone can find is spiritual healing. Jesus came that we might have life and in discovering that life we become children of God.

What does it mean to be a child of God? What did it mean to be a child in Mark's household? When Mark took in a child they had the right to anything but his own bedroom, they could go into the kitchen, the bathroom, the lounge room. When we are born again we have the rights of a child in the house, all is ours. All that belongs to our Father belongs to us. Amen!