Our Heavenly Father's Pleasure

Now that we have come to the close of this week which we have entitled as Father’s Week, we have still one more area to explore, in relation to our week’s topic.

The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall no longer use that proverb in Israel. Ezekiel 18: 1 – 3.

In conclusion, with a new heart and a new spirit, listen to the pleading, loving, comforting and assuring voice of God as Father. For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, says the Lord GOD. Therefore turn and live! Ezekiel 18: 32. All human emotions take a far hike here. Nothing of our fickle sadness, remorse or pity, must come near this most Spirit-calling and Spirit-pleading time. Our heavenly Father is Spirit and we must respond to Him in Spirit and in Truth, nothing of human self.

The voice of our Father is full of pain, yet full of pleasure. There is pain in the fact that His children are dead and dying and that grieves Him immensely. On the other hand, His pleasure is to know that His sinful children have repented and have returned to Him. This means that they are no longer dying, since Spiritual death is to live apart from Him. The honesty of our Father in heaven is beyond our human understanding. I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies.

The voice of our Father is saturated with pitiful care, yet steeped with jubilant care. There is pity, for no one needs die, hence our Father’s pity is not just feeling sorry for us. It is a deeply sad lament that we prefer death away from Him, rather than life with Him. Conversely, there is the jubilantly rejoicing care, which is showered on all who hear Him and come to Him for forgiveness and life. I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies.

The voice of our Father is intimate, personal and totally exposing. Our Father loves all His children as if He only had one child. Even if one child dies, one child is away from Him, being contrary to His commands, He still has no pleasure in the death of that one disobedient child. His words are custom cut for one, yet they are comfortably suited to all. Here is the lost, dead child and the unlost, living ninety-nine children. The will of the Father, the heart of the Father, is for not one of His children to be lost and die. Our Father in heaven is proud and jealous of His family, all His children. Think of this. If one of the whole is missing, the Father does not have completeness. He has no pleasure in incompleteness. On the other hand, if He has ninety-nine of the whole, present with Him, He still does not have completeness. Father God takes no pleasure whatsoever in incompleteness. I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies.

May we all leave this time with the faith-filling assurance that truth has been indelibly etched on our hearts and in our minds. This is the truth! Your heavenly Father and mine, does not want us to keep holding on any longer to thoughts and beliefs which tell us that we must suffer for the sins of our parents.

Not only is His truth to wash away all falseness and set us free from such damaging erroneousness, but it must be forever written in our hearts and on our minds. Additionally, as Spirit-fruit is born and borne in us, this truth must be written and published in our speaking and living, so that others may be helped also.

Through God the Holy Spirit, we each must repent of our sins and receive the innumerable, incalculable, and unsurpassed rich promises, which our heavenly Father already has in store for us. Therefore turn and live! Our Father in heaven wants His children to live in His inner peace and comforts.

This Word of our Father in heaven has come to us again, through His ever abiding Holy Spirit. Trusting in Him as the Spirit of Truth, the One Almighty Enabler, by faith we accept the command concerning this proverb, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. We hear and we heed our Father.

As long as God – Father, Son and Holy Ghost – lives, not one of us must ever be caught believing, using, professing or proclaiming such a lie.