Tag: Spiritual Orphan

(Chart Below Adapted from Arrow Ministries – Original Source is Unknown)

SUBJECT	ORPHANED FROM GOD	MARKS OF A CHILD OF GOD
Condition	Bondage	Liberty
Dependency	Independent/self-reliant	Interdependent/Acknowledges need
Expression of Love	Guarded and conditional; based upon others’ performance as you seek to get your own needs met	Open, patient, and affectionate as you lay your life and agendas down in order to meet the needs of others
Future	Fight for what you can get!	Release your inheritance!
Handling Others Faults	Accusation and exposure in order to make yourself look good by making others look bad	Love covers as you seek to restore others in a spirit of love and gentleness
Image of God	See God as Master	See God as loving Father
Motive for Purity	‘Must” be holy to have God’s favor, thus increasing a sense of shame and guilt	“Want to” be holy; do not want anything to hinder your intimate relationship with God
Motive for service	A need for personal achievement as you seek to impress God and others, or no motivation to serve at all	Service that is motivated by a deep gratitude for being unconditionally loved and accepted by God
Need for approval	Strive for the praise, approval, and acceptance of man	Totally accepted in God’s love and justified by grace
Peer Rela- tionships	Competition, rivalry, and jealousy toward others’ success and position	Humility and unity as you value others and are able to rejoice in their blessings and success
Position	Feel like a servant/slave	Feel like a beloved son/daughter
Sense of God’s Presence	Conditional and Distant	Close and intimate
Source of Comfort	Seek comfort in counterfeit affections: addictions, compulsions, escapism, busyness, hyper-religious activity	Seek times of quietness and solitude, to rest in the Father’s presence and love
Theology	Live by the love of Law	Live by the Law of Love
View of Admonition	Difficulty receiving admonition; you must be right so you easily get your feelings hurt and close your spirit to discipline	See the receiving of admonition as a blessing and need in your life so that your faults and weaknesses are exposed and put to death
View of Authority	See authority as a source of pain; distrustful toward them and lack a heart attitude of submission	Respectful, honoring; you see them as ministers of God for good in your life
Vision	Spiritual ambition; the earnest desire for some spiritual achievement and distinction and the willingness to strive for it; a desire to be seen counted among the mature	To daily experience the Father’s unconditional love and acceptance and then be sent as a representative of his love to family and others