Ransomed

Have you ever heard stories of kidnapped children? These are heart-rending and inevitably traumatic for the children, but no matter how much they have suffered, the parents always want them back. Am I not a better father than any on earth? If fathers in this world will give their children bread rather than stones and serpents, how much more will I give good things to those who ask me? You are my child. Have you been kidnapped by the adversary? No matter how much trauma and abuse you have suffered I still want you back. I have already paid the ransom to redeem you to myself. I will restore the damage that has been done to you.