Bright and early on Monday morning, John Best started out our day with an amazing devotion. He started asking us who all has experienced being a father…. You could hear a pin drop till we lost our composure and busted out laughing. He was laughing and held his head high, proud of the joke he had just cracked. Then he regained his serious face and told us how much he takes pride in this son Alexander and how much he loves him and how he would do anything for him when it came to his sons life. That 9 month boy is part of him and every minute John spends with him is a minute he is so blessed with and wouldn’t trade anything for. Then he asked the simple question “Do we realize that our father, God, takes more pride in us then I could ever take pride in my son Alexander?”
Our father is the most loving, caring, and most patient father there is. We seem to compare God with our earthy father sometimes. If we have a good relationship with our father here and are able to relate to him and to carry a conversation with him and just be loved by him, we seem to be able to except the love of God as well. We see God as our father here. If we can trust the father God gave us… its easier to love God himself. But if we live in a home where we struggle to make it through a day with our fathers and just cant stand to be around him, how do you think we could ever really love a father we cant even see? If we cant even trust or confide in a human… how can we ever fully rely on a person we cant see? Its so true. I have a great relationship with my earthy father who loves God and has taught me to love the Lord and to do what’s right. I have a father who would do anything for me and who loves me for me and can forgive when I mess up. When I have that with my daddy… I can love my first father even more. I have a good outlook on Jesus and I can relate him to the wonderful father he gave me here. All God wants from us is to spend time with him. Just to sit down, tell him our fears, worries, and things that are going on in our lives just like we do to our daddies. He wants that relationship with us like our dads have with us here.
I had never really looked at it like that. We are a part of God and he takes pride in us. He loves us so much. He would do anything for us. He did everything for us. He died for us. What else do we need to help us see that? We have a great father in heaven… lets get to know him better and spend time with him. He is wanting to hold us and to tell us he loves us.
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