Today's promise: God celebrates family
How Do You See God as
Father?
To all who believed him
and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 1:12 NLT
God's fatherhood
Most people in the world
would agree with the statement that "we are all God's
children." It's a nice sentiment. It just isn't what the Bible teaches.
According to God's Word, unrepentant sinners are actually God's enemies
(see Romans 5:10 and Colossians 1:21)! It's only when we put our trust in the
Lord Jesus Christ that we are reconciled to God and experience forgiveness and
adoption into God's forever family (Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 1:5).
For a Christian going
through hard times, this "adoption" truth is the best of all possible
news. God is not just the powerful Creator or a righteous Lord, he is a loving
Father. He sees your trials. He listens to your pleas. He cares and
protects and supports. He is never harsh or impatient with you. He is never
"too busy" for you.
Take all the best
qualities of all the best earthly dads you've ever seen, add them together, and
multiply by infinity. That's the kind of heavenly Father God is to Christians
who hurt.
Lord Jesus, I do believe
in you. I have accepted you as my Savior and Lord. Thank you for revealing
yourself to me. Thank you for saving me! Because of your grace and my faith, I
am a child of the living God. I praise you. What a privilege! What joy to know
that in every situation I have a loving, wise, and good heavenly Father to
counsel and help me.
adapted from Praying God's Promises in Tough Times by Len
Woods, Tyndale House Publishers (2002), pp 68-9
As a substitute father
for hundreds of youth over the past thirteen years, I've yet to encounter a
young person in trouble whose difficulty could be traced to the lack of a
strong father image in the home.
PAUL ANDERSON
PAUL ANDERSON
A child is not likely to
find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
AUSTIN L. SORENSEN
AUSTIN L. SORENSEN
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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