Daddies

How often it has been said that one can't know and understand the love of the heavenly Father when one's earthly father has been uncaring and abusive?  We need a kind, loving father here to know the true Father there. 

I'd like to argue that just the opposite may be true.  What about the father we've always been dreaming about, the one that loves us just the way we are, that lavishes us with gifts, that is always wise and kind and understanding?  Isn't the perfect father, that none of us has, the very Father we have in heaven, come to dwell with us here on earth? 

Read again this morning Ephesians 1.  Isn't this the description of the perfect Father?  Isn't this the One we hunger for? 

And this is the very One who has adopted us, who has made us His own and given us an inheritance along with His Son, Jesus Christ!  Read this in Galatians 4:  But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law [us!], so that we might receive adoption as sons [that was His plan all along - He wants us!].  And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts ["who is a guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it" according to Ephesians 1:14], crying "Abba!  Father!"  So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. 

Wow.  He wants me.  So much that He pursues me.  He loves me like no earthly father ever could.  Rest in those everlasting arms this day.  Snuggle up to your Daddy and never doubt His love for you. 

He is all you've ever dreamed of in a Daddy.