I just wanted to let you know about what happened the other day (last week actually). I was sitting and going through Ephesians when I just happened to glance across the page and get a glimpse at the word 'Father'. A few thoughts raced through my mind there and then and all of a sudden it hit me. The relationship we all have with God is one of a child to a father. Not just any father, but the utopian kind of father I always had in my mind. You know the one that I always wanted to have look out for me, and guide me, and be there with me when I needed him. It wasn't just theory either. It was a real understanding that my God is my Father, and He has always looked out for me and guided me. It may sound strange but I kind of felt foolish for not believing it earlier. In fact I felt quite humbled that I had been so hard in my heart so as not to accept it sooner.
~ preciousgift / aug 24, 2001
Unfortunately, a lot of sons and daughters have no fathers or poor examples of fathers. It is sad that they have no clear picture of God the Father. They missed out on what I got to have in my own life. { I love you, Dad! } Yet, as I got to experience a peer be the best dad he could to his teenagers, I began to see that it is within you. I could see him ache for a son making some poor choices. I could see him wrestle with care of bringing his girl home under his roof. I loved his laugh as he tease his kids. I love the romance he colored in his girl's life. I saw the mundame struggle to keep the money for home and life. I felt his hope for his kids to be happy and secure. All those fatherly feelings he had is more so with the Heavenly Father.
Yes, Utopian Father is a perfect description of God. What is it that you dream in a father? You have it in God.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the Heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be Holy and blameless in His Sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will— to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the Riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And He made known to us the MYSTERY of His Will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His Will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of His glory.
~ Ephesians 1:3-14
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