Of the Household of God

The Loneliness

This closes the second movement of this book with Paul’s own comprehensive claim, worth holding as this movement’s own culminating truth, no more strangers, worth examining this direct reversal, whatever isolation this whole book’s first movement honestly named, genuinely, actually reversed by this described inclusion.

This closes the loop this whole second movement has traced. Adoption deliberately predestinated, the Spirit of adoption producing genuine intimacy, adoption as Christ’s own deliberate purpose, love worth beholding, power to become sons, the solitary set in families, taken up when others forsake, never forgotten, genuine heirs.

Notice fellowcitizens with the saints, worth holding as this verse’s own additional, communal claim, this household not merely a private relationship with God alone, but this described, genuine community, worth examining what this fuller, communal reality actually, practically means for your own life.

As this movement closes, receive of the household of God as your own genuine, actual identity, no longer stranger or foreigner, worth carrying forward into this book’s third movement, where actually, practically living as family, not merely believing this theological reality, will become this book’s own genuine focus.