Jesus is Your Father -- if You are Poor in Self

"I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. " (Job 29: 16)

Job is a picture of the believer how tries through his own efforts to please God and earn His favor.

Nothing that we do will ever earn God's favor:

"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." (Romans 11: 6)

This grace we receive by faith:

"4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" (Ephesians 2: 4-8)

The Holy Spirit has been released to the whole world, released when Jesus sat down:

"Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." (Acts 2: 33)

He is our Father through this Holy Spirit, who brings with Himself adoption into the family of God (Romans 8: 15), that we may be called sons of God (1 John 3: 1-3)

Instead of standing rich in ourselves, let us accept that apart from Jesus, we can do nothing "(John 15: 5). He is our live (Galatians 2: 20-21), and through His death we are made one of many brethren in the Body of Christ.