God is a Father Too

GOD IS A FATHER TOO

Who do you think of when you hear the words “Father God”? How do you picture Him?

If you’re anything like me, you might have or had visions of a gigantic man, sitting on a massive throne with a big stick in his mighty right hand and a permanent scowl on his face.

This is how I used to picture God.

Yet, this in not how the Bible portrays God.

For almost all of my life, I would almost duck on the inside when I did something wrong for fear that He would reach down with his big stick and whack me up side the head. It has only been in the last few years that I have realised that this is not at all who God is and what He is like.

God’s Very Nature IS Love

Not the wishy washy, fluffy, soppy love. His love is so mighty and powerful that it protects, it fights for, provides, blesses and most incredibly – dies for.

God loves His people, His children (you) so powerfully that He allowed Himself to feel such incredibly intense pain when His only Son, Jesus died.

God Is Your Heavenly Father

You have to remember that God is your Father too.

If you go to God as your kind and loving Father to ask Him a question, He will be more inclined to answer you. Father God will answer you most of the time when you approach Him with a humble attitude.

God As Father In The Bible

If we read the Bible with the perspective of God being a Father, I think we would view the Word, and Him very differently.

Father God protects His children. (Psalm 91)

Father God disciplines (trains) His children. (Hebrews 12:11)

Father God teaches His children. (Isaiah 54:13)

Father God blesses His children. (James 1:17)

Father God provides for His children. (Philippians 4:19)

Father God removes His children’s enemies.  (Deuteronomy 28:7)

Father God exalts His humble children. (Matthew 23:12)

Father God strengthens His children.  (Isaiah 41:10)

Father God fights for His children. (Isaiah 54:17)

Father God comforts His children. (Isaiah 66:13)

Father God gives mercy to His children. (Deuteronomy 4:31)

Father God desperately and intentionally loves His children …… with ALL of His heart!  (Psalm 86:15)

On a slightly different note …….

Please, please, please, please, PLEASE ……. Don’t say, “Oh my g _ _”

It is so incredibly disrespectful and dishonouring to the One who loves you and created you.

If you have or had a loving, earthly dad, would you walk around saying, “Oh my ______ (insert your dad’s name here)”? I doubt it. It really would be such a disrespectful and awful thing to do and I am sure he wouldn’t appreciate it. Do you see what I mean?

It is crucial that the main foundation and belief that you and I must function out of is ……. LOVE.

You can’t give out of what you don’t have. If you have not yet received God’s love, step out and ask Him to shower you and fill you with it. Your ‘love tank’ needs to be full before you can turn on the tap and give love to anyone else.

If you didn’t have a wonderful earthly example of a loving a dad (and I’m not criticising them because people who hurt others are usually terribly wounded themselves), imagine who you would like Father God to be for you. Imagine the best dad possible and alongside that, ask God to reveal Himself to you …. just as He truly is.

My own dad was such a wounded person that he had absolutely no clue how to show love to anyone. It took me doing exactly what I am suggesting to you to even come close to accepting that God loved me. Let me assure you, it’s worth it.

“For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His[One and] ^[a]only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him.”         John 3:16-17 (AMP)

A Prayer

Heavenly Father, I come to You asking You to reveal Yourself to me. If there are any false beliefs within my heart about You, then I ask that you will bring them into the light and show me the truth of who You really are. I want to know you as a loving Father, my loving Father. By faith, I thank You for Your everlasting love. I thank You that You have promised You will never leave me. Please fill me with Your never-ending love, right now, so that Your love will overflow out of me to those around me. I receive this by faith in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

I would love to hear from you below if you prayed this prayer. Share how the Lord met with you. Nothing is impossible with God. He can and does heal every wound within us if we ask.

Have an amazing week.

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