When we begin to understand that Jehovah God is our Father, we would then begin to understand the full concept of the Christian doctrine, God is our Father not only does the bible said so, but we see the full manifest of God in his Son Christ Jesus, (Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?, John 14:9), there is no other way we can fully comprehend the person of the Father, if we miss the person of Jesus, everything about God was fully manifested in him, in that he demonstrated the Father-Heart-Of -God to us.
When Jesus was here on earth, he demonstrated the love of God to the fullest, there is no way we can approach God, without first understanding his divine Fatherhood, the Fatherhood of God defines our future, in that it is God himself who defines our future, he knows each and everyone of us needs, he designs the road we all must pass to achieve his designs for our lives.
We do often read in the bible that God so much loved this world, that he gave his only begotten son (John 3:16), it takes more than a mere understanding to fully understand what that particular verse of the bible is talking about, God in his infinite love and compassion, gave us his only begotten son, he did this so that we could become sons, that is why the bible said that Jesus came to bring many sons to glory: For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.(Hebrews 2:10), he did this by offering his only life, he confirmed it by shedding his blood, he sealed it with his indisputable resurrection, with this in mind, we can have a full assurance.
How can we frail mortals believe and understand that God is our Papa?
We can believe and understand that by looking towards the cross, if we are able to fully grasp what really took place on the cross, we can easily believe and know that Yahweh is Daddy, a loving Father whose consummating love pierces the darkest of all hearts with a divine touching tender love which goes beyond the wisest of human understanding, making the worst hating sinner, a gentle loving lamb.
Jesus committed no sin, but it was God’s pleasure that he should bore our sins on his body, Jesus being whom he is, gladly accepted it, it was God’s design from origin that Jesus should be our propitiation, if we really believe this, we shouldn’t find it difficult that God is our Daddy in heaven who cares and is concerned about all our every needs, he first loved us before we love him, it was Daddy who initiated the whole love scenario, beginning from Eden immediately after the fall, when he slew a lamb and used the skin to cover the nakedness of our first parents, God was in advance showing how he would lavishly pour out his unimaginable loving saving grace upon falling humanity, it is of this love that has drawn men to the fountain of life-Jesus.
We must understand that our Daddy loves relationship and not religion, the Devil uses religion to demarcate us from the love of Daddy, the greatest tool that the Devil is using to enslave humanity from experiencing Daddy’s love is religion, religion tells you that you are not worthy to be loved of God, and that you are nothing but a miserable slave before God, yes, we all know that we are not worthy of God’s love, and that we are miserable before God, but on the contrary the bible said otherwise, irrespective of our miserable and deplorable state, God still sent his son into the world to die for us, so that through him we could become Daddy’s children, God is interested in each and everyone of us, he loves us as we are, what is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of Adam that you visit him (Psalms 8:4), it should be clear that Daddy loves an cherishes us by making us in his own very image.
It is very sad thing that many Christians still go on with their lives carrying heavy loads of guilt, tormented by the memory of past sins which in reality God has forgiven and forgotten, our Father is not a sadist and an unforgiving tyrant who strikes at anyone who fails his orders, on the contrary he is forgiving, loving, caring and understands our very weaknesses, therefore much grace has been released to us-not to dwell in iniquity, but to live in righteousness in the newness of live in the light of the glory of the Father, for Jesus came to bring many sons unto glory: For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10)
There is a need for that this generation discovers the unselfishness of God, his attributes, his loving and forgiving nature, we often read in the scriptures: If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? (Psalms 130:3)
If Daddy takes all his time to number our sins and put them into record, no flesh would survive, we would all perish in a twinkling of an eye, and we see Sodom & Gomorrah as an example of his divine judgment upon wickedness, how with fire & brimstone he destroyed them, but it was all their fault, because Daddy gave them much time to repent, but they wasted it and made light the longsuffering of the Lord, therefore we must know that though our Father is loving, gentle and forgiving, he will not always tolerate our perfidy if we do not repent.
In conclusion, we must now begin to embrace the loving heart of God; we should see God as a loving and forgiving Father, not as a dictator and a sadist who rejoices at our hurt and suffering.
God wants us to know and understand that he cares for our every need, from the least of them to the greatest, he is ever concerned, Jehovah is not indifferent to our suffering, it is man’s awkward and religious mental retardation that makes him to see God as dictator who does not forgive nor tolerate our weaknesses, if God is like that, what kind of world would we find ourselves? But thank God for whom he is, Jehovah understands us more than we could understand ourselves, he knows all that we are undergoing in life, he is always there as the ever present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1-3), with this in mind, we can rest assured that we are not left alone in this troubled and choked world, full of pains and misery, we’ve been promised victory in advance, that is why we can boldly declare with the Apostle; “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”. (1 John 4:4), if we belong to God, we are victorious in advance, no matter what.
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