God Is Your Father

Linda Rock
2 days ago
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On this Lord’s Day Sunday, we come with grateful hearts and thankful lives for the privilege of seeing another new day and the beginning of a fresh, new week. The truth is that not one of us knows what today holds for us, but we must put all our hope and trust in the God who created us, who has given Himself to us as our Heavenly Father and who has told us to call Him Father.

If God has said that He is your Heavenly Father, a Father whose love for you is unsurpassed, then ought you not to live as a child of God? Who then is Father God? God is all things and everything to you. However, specifically and especially for you, here are facts that are personally yours through Christ Jesus. Whether these Scripture verses, which tell you about our Father in heaven, are known or unknown to you, remembered or forgotten by you, or even if you hold some dear and others as not so dear for you, they have been given for you, in this moment. Holy Spirit blessings are upon them all. Will you not receive?

Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 1 Corinthians 8: 6. God is not just your Father, but it is from Him you have all things, even your life, through His Son Jesus. Stop living as though your life belongs to another.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3: 1a. It is because of God’s lavish, saving love for you, and absolutely nothing of you or your works - good or bad - that God calls you His child. Why suddenly let your unworthy self, be a hindrance to being a child of God? You were always unworthy.

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64: 8. You are to be submissive, obedient and totally flexible in your Father’s Hands, to train and fit you as He desires. You are not being fitted to your fancy, but His favour. Give yourself over.

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. Psalm 103: 13. If you resist your Father’s commands and remain persistently stubborn against His will, showing Him scant respect and grudging deference, how do you expect to know His tender compassion? His compassion is vain and a waste to you, if you refuse to fear Him. Don't refuse Him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1: 17. God, your Father only gives good and perfect gifts to you, His child. Your Father is trustworthy. There is no error in His judgments, nor is there any going back on His promises to you. He’s no fly-by-night, fickle Father.

For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name. Isaiah 63: 16. It matters not whether you belong to one tribe or the other, denied or accepted by this one or that one. The Lord is your Father and that is all that matters. Live as His child, and not as some orphan.

I end with this poem by Elizabeth Cheney, written well over a century ago, yet very pertinent indeed for us today.