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Understanding the Fatherhood of the Living God

Our son is 1.5 years old now. Normally he sleeps by 8 PM and during the night while sleeping, he gets up crying for milk or for some attention. Either me or my wife pick him up and look after his needs. There were some nights in which he used to wake up frequently and we had to give him more time and lose our sleep. Some times it was very difficult to put him back to sleep. In spite of all this, I have observed that I never felt like ignoring his needs. Either me or my wife would get up, take care of his need and put him back to sleep.

I am sure many of us who have children will agree with me. The reason I am narrating this is that in many such situations, I was reminded of my Heavenly Father and felt a comforting assurance from God that He is indeed my Father and I am His beloved son. No matter what my short comings are and how unfaithful I had been to Him, still God reminded me of His unfailing love and the covenant that He has established with me. We read from the Bible in Isaiah 54:10 -
"For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you."
Unfortunately many of us have a blurred and partial understanding of God. Some think of Him as a strict enforcer of some laws whose only interest is to take away our freedom. But if we look carefully into God's nature, He is a God who is interested in our freedom and He has given us 100% freedom. We lose our joy and privileges of being the children of the living God if we continue in our partial understanding of His nature.

We all might have observed that children demand things from their parents out of freedom, love, selfishness etc. The wonderful thing to observe is that the child has the right to everything the father has. Remember the good old story of "The prodigal son" from the Bible? Why do you think Jesus told that story? It is only to understand the loving heart of our Heavenly Father.

Now, we human beings, being imperfect with all our limitations and weaknesses know how to love and give good things to our own children, what about the perfect Holy God, who chose to be our Heavenly Father? Read what the Bible says in this regard from Matthew 7:11 -
"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him!"
I am confident that many of us have found such common instances of life which gives us keys to understand the uncommon love of God, who is the creator of heaven and earth. Please share your experiences in understanding such loving Heavenly Father.

Questions to Ponder:
  1. What is your understanding of the living God?
  2. Are you taking rest in your Heavenly Father?

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