These past weeks I noticed the shops have been busy pushing out “Father’s Day Gifts” to the extent that my mailbox downstairs has been overflowing with promo junk mail. In my usual fashion, I would quickly dispose of the bulk of them while mourning the wasteful death of trees and wishing more businesses would just go paperless and advertise online! However, this weekend while dumping my junk-mail, I found my thoughts turning to ponder on the personal relationship believers claim as God’s children and examine whether in fact I really understand or appreciate the Fatherhood of God and the Father’s Heart. If I think I do, then I ask myself whether my life is demonstrating this? If not sufficiently so, why not?

After this deep reflection, I have to admit that my appreciation of God as My Father is way below the scale and I need to grow in this respect. I suspect even among believers I’m not alone in this spiritual condition. Somehow I am convinced in my mind that I’m God’s child and I’ll go home one day to my Father’s house. This is more of an intellectual or theological understanding that’s all. Somehow, I have not fully grasped the reality of the Father’s relationship as it applies to me in my daily walk in my life on earth.I don’t know about you but certainly, I know I have not embraced that reality in full.

To live in the full understanding that I am His child and He is my Father would have to mean I will depend on my Father to provide all my needs like a child coming to daddy with open palms. It will mean I trust my dad’s decision has always my best interest at heart. If he has refused to grant my requests, he has a valid reason and it is in my best interest. Moreover, before I enter into a major decision, as a child, shouldn’t I first confide in and consult with my father and seek his opinion ?

I must uphold the above if my relationship with Father God is alive, wholesome and strong, do you agree? Perhaps it is to underscore the supreme importance of this foundation of Christian faith, Jesus responded to his disciples asking how to pray by teaching the prayer “Our Father” commonly known as “The Lord’s Prayer”.

But the weakness of our flesh, the strength of our self-will, or some negative experience we had with imperfect earthly parents and a host of other causes, do prevent most of us from attaining the fullness of a vital and life-renewing relationship with our Father. The unfortunate result is we have yet to experience the total blessings from living as a child of God. It is vital that we recognise our need for God to be Our Father as well as being God, King and Lord of All.

I feel I should at this point share with you a “Fathers Love Letter” reproduced below. This letter made such a big impact from a small beginning in Canada that it became the mustard seed that grew a ministry that touched countless lives, drawing people who didn’t know the Father to Him and helping Christians to live truly as God’s children.

The Father’s Love Letter

My Child,

You may not know me,
but I know everything about you.
Psalm 139:1

I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
Psalm 139:2

I am familiar with all your ways.
Psalm 139:3

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
Matthew 10:29-31

For you were made in my image.
Genesis 1:27

In me you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:28

For you are my offspring.
Acts 17:28

I knew you even before you were conceived.
Jeremiah 1:4-5

I chose you when I planned creation.
Ephesians 1:11-12

You were not a mistake,
for all your days are written in my book.
Psalm 139:15-16

I determined the exact time of your birth
and where you would live.
Acts 17:26

You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14

I knit you together in your mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:13

And brought you forth on the day you were born.
Psalm 71:6

I have been misrepresented
by those who don’t know me.
John 8:41-44

I am not distant and angry,
but am the complete expression of love.
1 John 4:16

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you.
1 John 3:1

Simply because you are my child
and I am your Father.
1 John 3:1

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could.
Matthew 7:11

For I am the perfect father.
Matthew 5:48

Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand.
James 1:17

For I am your provider and I meet all your needs.
Matthew 6:31-33

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

Because I love you with an everlasting love.
Jeremiah 31:3

My thoughts toward you are countless
as the sand on the seashore.
Psalms 139:17-18

And I rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17

I will never stop doing good to you.
Jeremiah 32:40

For you are my treasured possession.
Exodus 19:5

I desire to establish you
with all my heart and all my soul.
Jeremiah 32:41

And I want to show you great and marvelous things.
Jeremiah 33:3

If you seek me with all your heart,
you will find me.
Deuteronomy 4:29

Delight in me and I will give you
the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

For it is I who gave you those desires.
Philippians 2:13

I am able to do more for you
than you could possibly imagine.
Ephesians 3:20

For I am your greatest encourager.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

I am also the Father who comforts you
in all your troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

When you are brokenhearted,
I am close to you.
Psalm 34:18

As a shepherd carries a lamb,
I have carried you close to my heart.
Isaiah 40:11

One day I will wipe away
every tear from your eyes.
Revelation 21:3-4

And I’ll take away all the pain
you have suffered on this earth.
Revelation 21:3-4

I am your Father, and I love you
even as I love my son, Jesus.
John 17:23

For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.
John 17:26

He is the exact representation of my being.
Hebrews 1:3

He came to demonstrate that I am for you,
not against you.
Romans 8:31

And to tell you that I am not counting your sins.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

His death was the ultimate expression
of my love for you.
1 John 4:10

I gave up everything I loved
that I might gain your love.
Romans 8:31-32

If you receive the gift of my son Jesus,
you receive me.
1 John 2:23

And nothing will ever separate you
from my love again.
Romans 8:38-39

Come home and I’ll throw the biggest party
heaven has ever seen.
Luke 15:7

I have always been Father,
and will always be Father.
Ephesians 3:14-15

My question is…
Will you be my child?
John 1:12-13

I am waiting for you.
Luke 15:11-32

Love, Your Dad
Almighty God

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