The Father: Not Servants, but Sons

Words of Truth
Galatians 4GAL 4
In Genesis we have the Father. It is the book of the patriarchs, and the affections of the Father are displayed and exercised there very beautifully.
Abraham (as well as others in this book) desires a child. Though his house might have been established in a servant, a loved and trusted servant called Eliezer of Damascus, this will not do for him. As long as he went childless, his heart was not satisfied.
He makes a feast when his son Isaac is weaned. This was his joy, to hear himself addressed as a father. Sarah will then also have the house cleared of the bondwoman and her child.
Jacob adopts his grandchildren, the sons of Joseph. He gives them the place and inheritance of the firstborn, and welcomes them with full affection.
These are among the instances which we find in these early patriarchal days of the counsel and affections of our heavenly Father shadowed or expressed in His representatives in the book of Genesis. There is no law, no Moses, no schoolmaster in this book. God has the elect immediately under His own hand and eye, dealing with them by home method, so to express it, and not by the intervention of tutors and governors.
The law came afterward, and then the elect were carried to school and put under rules and ordinances foreign to the home of the family, and treated rather as servants than as children. The head of a school is a schoolmaster.