FATHER ME!!
FATHER ME!!!
Imagine God creating us and throwing us here on earth as individuals without parents, nothing like a father or mother. Do we just happen one day all by ourselves? He creates us and then throws us down from heaven down here on earth to find our way through survival all by ourselves. I pray you are able to see the image I am painting here. With the above preamble, imagine God coming from nowhere to introduce Himself as a FATHER. What will be your response? Let me guess some possible responses. A father? What does that mean? What does a father do? How do I relate to a father? Who is a father? Your name or a title?
I can confidently say that God may not even bother Himself with such an introduction to humanity because we will not understand the concept of fatherhood. Humanity cannot embrace it.
Everything God is to us, HE has given us the pattern or a foretaste of it here on earth with tangible evidence to enable us to receive the reality which is Spiritual (Him). This will help us know how to relate with the spiritual world (God), having tasted of the real things in the physical. What do I mean? God has a bigger picture in mind concerning everything He allows here on earth. We will narrow this to fatherhood/parenting for now. God’s biggest vision for a family or parenting is that parents will share such love with their wards such that the relationship and fellowship between children and their fathers/parents are so strong and secured and sincere in such a manner that when He introduces Himself to us as a father, and even a more loving Father, they will be able to comprehend, translate and be able to relate it to Him in all security and trust as it is between them and their parents. God has always wanted and still wants to use our earthly father-to-child relationship to teach us how to relate to Him who is our Heavenly Father. Unfortunately, parenting is failing, marriages aren’t working and children aren’t getting the kind of love they should from fathers/parents. Love is so hard to define between a father and a child. Children hear the voices of their parents and the first reaction is fear. In God’s notion of fatherhood, it must not be so!!
When parenting is lived out and practiced according to the pattern in God's original plan for it, in all its divine endowments and knowledge of the Word, Even a rebuke from a parent must not scare a child. It should rather assure a child of the love the Father has in wanting the best for them.
Humanity has not lived to love God and relate with Him so much as a father than a mere object of worship.
It’s time for a change. He wants to father you!
Just like my dad will always call to find out if I have eaten, back from work, my finances, academics, relationship, etc. God even desires to talk to us and find out more. He is more concerned than we have ever thought He is (Luke 11:13). Talk to Him just like you will to the closest person to you. ( I did not say as a father because you may not have a good relationship with your father, but there is that special someone that you are very close to). Be sincere and talk with Him. Don’t hide anything, after all, He even knows all we do whether we say it or not,
Befriend God. Allow Him to father you!!!
Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for your love. Help me to understand what you mean by ‘my heavenly Father’. I allow myself to be fathered by you from today. Teach me to enjoy this new knowledge of who you are to me and lead daily in the path of love in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen
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Keep it up. May God give you the fruit of wisdom to understand his mystery, and contribute to growth of His Kingdom