The Ultimate Father

When I woke up this morning, I started thinking about the fact that it was Father’s Day today, and how lucky I am that after my birth father died, God chose to bring my dad into my life. He is the man who has raised me, and I absolutely love him to pieces!

Then I thought about God, and the realization hit me that He is our Ultimate Father!

I also started thinking about how much He loves His Son, Christ Jesus Our Lord, and how much it must have hurt Him to sacrifice Christ for us, so that we would be made righteous with Him.

Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever truly thought about the fact that the whole father / son relationship was started by One Father and One Son?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
(John 1:1)

I know that today is difficult for many people who are without their father, either through death, abandonment or other circumstances. And yet, for the believer, while their earthly father may not be present in their life, we are not alone, no matter how lonely we may feel, because the Lord promises us:

“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
(Joshua 1:5)

And because God NEVER breaks His promises, the fact that He is with us right now is something we can take to the bank!

Thanking God for being the Ultimate Father, and asking Him to bless fathers around the world on this special day…
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Thought for Today

Always surprised by how much power the words and actions (or sometimes lack thereof) by others have to cause us pain.

Trusting God to heal my heart in ways that only He can ...
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Always Remember

Always remember, when God made you He did so with a purpose and a plan

He saw all your days before you lived one of them and placed over you the covering of His protective love.

He has allowed nothing to come into your life that has not first been screened through that love.

His hand has remained upon you to this very day.

He calls you by name.

You are His beloved child …
The apple of His eye …
The delight of His heart.

Today you are in the exact place He wants you to be, and tomorrow He will be with you as He has always been – in goodness, in kindness, in faithfulness.

~Anonymous
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The Pruning Effect

"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you." (Isaiah 26:3)

Have spent the majority of today feeling the effects of God's pruning and the truth of the matter is that it hurts! However, whether He chooses to ever restore this friendship or not is up to Him, because He is my FIRST PRIORITY!
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Prayer for Today

Lord,

Please make my heart COMPLETELY Yours! Show me how to want to want YOU more than anyone or anything else in my life ... No matter the cost.

I am a sinner in need of a Savior, now and always!
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On Prayer

"It is comparatively easy to wait upon God; but to wait upon Him ONLY-- to feel, so far as our strength, happiness, and usefulness are concerned, as if all creatures and second causes were annihilated, and we were alone in the universe with God, is, I suspect, a difficult and rare attainment. At least, I am sure it is one at which I am very far from having made. In proportion as we make this attainment we shall find everything easy, for we shall become, emphatically, men of prayer; and we may say of prayer as Solomon says of money, that it answereth all things."

~ Edward Payson

(from the book "Purpose in Prayer" by E.M. Bounds)

Thought for Today

Thinking that life is so much more than I will ever understand this side of Heaven!