We’ll never have to pay attention to the issue of fatherlessness in our or others’ lives. It’s not like the government comes knocking on our door or creditors start calling if we don’t address the issue. Right?
Well, unless we want to be like Jesus. And unless His love compels us. It’s easy to overlook how important the fatherless are to God.
Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;
his name is the Lord;
exult before him!
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
is God in his holy habitation.
- Psalm 68:4-5 (ESV)
See also Isaiah 1:13-17, Psalm 10:16-18,
And, of course, it will eventually collapse all around us as our nation and “normal” becomes defined and shaped by these ignored fatherless ones (the indicators are right in front of us) or collapse inside us as we war with our own sense of rejection, isolation, insecurity and sometimes anger and guilt. Fatherlessness may never get the credit for these things either.
I’m telling you it’s an invisible epidemic.
