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Fatherless No More Today's Devotional Read: Psalm 68:1–10 Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 12–13; Acts 4:23–37 [God is] a father to the fatherless. Psalm 68:5 Guy Bryant, single and with no of his own, worked in New York City’s welfare department. Daily, he encountered the intense need for foster parents and decided to do something about it. For more than a decade, Bryant fostered more than fifty , once caring for nine at the same time. “Every time I turned around there was a who needed a place to stay,” Bryant explained. “If you have the space in your home and heart, you just do it. You don’t really think about it.” The foster who’ve grown and established their own lives still have keys to Bryant’s apartment and often return on Sundays for lunch with “Pops.” Bryant has shown the love of a father to many. The Scriptures tell us that God pursues all who are forgotten or cast aside. Although some believers will find themselves destitute and vulnerable in this life, He promises to be with them. God is “a father to the fatherless” (Psalm 68:5). If, through neglect or tragedy, we’re alone, God is still there—reaching out to us, drawing us near, and giving us hope. Indeed, “God sets the lonely in families” (v. 6). In Jesus, other believers comprise our spiritual family. Whatever our challenging family stories, our isolation, our abandonment, or our relational dysfunction may be, we can know that we’re loved. With God, we’re fatherless no more. What does it mean for you to have a heavenly Father who loves you and will never leave you? How does He meet your deepest needs? Father God, I need a good father, a true father, one who will not leave me. I’m grateful You’re this Father for me. 
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