What amazing good news for any member of this dysfunctional human race: God wants to be our Daddy!
If you were abandoned by your natural father, turn to the one and only faithful God. If you had an angry or abusive father, God in kindness and affection wants to embrace you as His child. If you feel you were robbed of parental guidance and are, consequently, adrift in your personal life or domestic challenges, let the heavenly Father take you under His wing.
“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called called children of God.” That’s from St. John’s first epistle, chapter 3, verse 1, in the New King James Version of the English Bible.
To enjoy this amazing, divine parental relationship requires that we give up our worldly, substitute caregivers, as St.Paul wrote in his second epistle to the Corinthians: “Come our from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty” (6:17-18).
When you turn from all earthly impostors to God, you not only can enjoy a very intimate relationship with your heavenly Father, you also can experience a strong bond with your spiritual brothers and sisters who enjoy the same intimacy. That’s why Jesus taught his disciples to pray, saying, “Our Father, which art in heaven….” He is not only MY Father, he is OUR father.
He wants to embrace and empower you as your Daddy. Will you reach out in a faith response to Him?
If you do, please let me know. I too have found Him to be a wonderful Daddy.
