The Father God

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

William R. Moody had a rare privilege. He was able to say that his father, the famous evangelist Dwight L. Moody, lived for the glory of God. Few of us have fathers like that. Many of us have fathers who are abusive, mean, despicable, irresponsible, disloyal, or absent. We are told to think of our God as a Father. What if your father often beat you until you bled? Cursed you? Cheated on your mother? Never attended your school activities? Left the family?

Sometimes realizing that God is the ultimate loving Father is difficult – difficult but not impossible. Some of us need counseling. We have to look into our minds and see what a father should be. We need to look at Godly men, who have lived to glorify God. We can study great fathers around us. When we look carefully, we will find that none of them are perfect. Only God is.

While we may need professional help, finding it is difficult. Even after locating reliable counselors, we will realize that the professionals are not perfect. We have to guard against all sorts of dangers. Two realizations are key to our spiritual and psychological happiness.

We must forgive our earthly fathers, and we must accept our heavenly Father as perfect. Whatever the problems we may have faced cannot be transferred to our concept of our heavenly Father.

As Christians, we have the Father, Who knows what we need before we ask Him, loves to hear from us, loves us, dotes on us, saves and savors our prayers, created us in His image, sent His Son to save us when we were lost, and took us back into His eternal family. Once we claim the forgiveness He has offered through the sacrifice Christ Jesus made once for all time, our Father does not see any of our imperfections. Instead, when He looks at us, He sees Jesus.

It was not easy for the Father to give His Son Jesus so that He could forgive our sins. Neither is it easy for us to forgive the humanity of our earthly fathers. When we go to our Father God in Jesus’ name, we can see that He is perfect. We don’t have to solve all those problems before we turn our lives over to Him. He’ll accept us and help us just as we are.

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James 1:17)
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