My Father's Child

A return home is pictured in the first lines of "My Father's Child": "I hear You call for my return, love has sent for me, I see You run with open arms, my heart is undone." The father running with open arms is the picture from Luke 15:20, and "You never withhold from me" adds the assurance that nothing good is kept back.

The chorus gives the title and the new identity: "I am my Father's child, I belong to the God Most High, I don't have to be afraid, for Your love is here to stay." The relationship of child to Father is the one Romans 8:15 describes with the word Abba.

The verse about mistakes says "every mistake vanished in waves of Your powerful grace, freedom at last, released from the past." A second form of the chorus gives the cost, "I was bought with the highest price, I don't have to be ashamed," in the spirit of 1 Corinthians 6:20. The ending sings to God directly, "Father, You are with me, Father, You are for me... Father, I will worship, Father, I adore You."