God's Call
The Greatest Call - The Great Commandment:
"Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Matthew 22:37-39
To fully love my Lord I must love others, for others are part of Him:
"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
1 John 4:12
"But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did."
John 2:5-6
The orphan is a tangible example of who we were before we received Christ and God adopted each of us. Could God be using them to show us how to love one another in the way He called us to?
The Call Within The Call
"Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you"
James 1:27 NLT
Our true hearts must not be conform to the world, but instead value the orphan as God does; Then and only then will we have the compassion that He has called us to have for them which will move us into action on behalf of His orphaned... which is to love them as ourselves. We are not all called to adopt but we are all called to care.
"Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples-when they see the love you have for each other."
John 13:34-35
How much does God Value the Orphaned?
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”
1 John 3:16
Over 45 times God mentions the fatherless/orphaned in the Bible.