God has made us all a family!

God has made us all a family!

Joined to God through Christ we are. 

God adopts us all as children,

Welcomes all, both near and far.

Through our Christ, to whom be glory,

God has made us family!

 

In Christ also we inherit

All that God's good will does give,

And are destined for God's purpose,

In Christ's grace to love and live.

Through our Christ, to whom be glory,

God has made us family!

 

God our parent, Christ our brother,

Joined in sibling bonds are we.

Therefore let us love each other

Now and in the age to be.

Through our Christ, to whom be glory,

God has made us family!

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, October 2022, ref. Ephesians 1:5-6, 11.

MUSIC: Tune REGENT SQUARE, Henry Thomas Smart, 1867.

 

 

Let's just say that there are surprisingly few hymns in GtG that explore the differing ideas of "family" in scripture, so this got written for one aspect of that (and for a need that didn't have a lot of time to be filled).