Yesterday I posted an article titled Daddy Issues. Today is Father's day, and as I wrote yesterday, we, as a nation, have some serious daddy issues. This is unfortunate, as God chooses to describe Himself as a good Father; Jesus also revealed God as a good Father.
We need to deal with our daddy issues, and pastors must overcome this, lest the become like author of the shack and choose to ignore God as a father, and portray God as a mother. However that is indeed a blasphemous thing to do.
There are many ways to reveal that God is indeed a good Father. One such way is to look at the very standard God set for Himself in Genesis 22:12. When we look at the story of Abraham and Isaac, God said, "seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." God set this as a standard for himself, to show us that when the Christ had come, we would know that God has not withheld anything from us, rather He gave the most precious thing He had to offer, His only Son.
John 3:16 “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. (HCSB)
Your personal story may very well include that of a poor earthly father; but God has revealed himself as a good Father. However this must be judged by what God defines, and not what our relativistic self wants it to be.
Abraham didn't withhold his son because of fear (Gen. 22:12), and faith (Gen. 22:8) that God was indeed good; he trusted that God would provide.
God loves the world; The Father loves His Son - Jesus. Jesus loves the Father. The Father gave his Son a bride; the Son loves the bride and took the responsibility to provide for His bride by laying down His own life in obedience to the Father, and He did it with absolute joy (Hebrew 12:2).
Coram Deo,
Douglas Herron
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