Corona Devo 1568

Happy Father's Day.  We think today of the men that raised us.  The men that invested time and love into us when we were young and the men that invest into us today, now that we're not so young.   

We salute the men that shaped and formed who we are today.  

Thank you, dad's.  

Thank you, papa's.  

Thank you uncles. 

Thank you, in-laws.

Thank you, bosses.

Thank you, coaches.

Thank you, teachers.

And thank you, God.

God?  

Do we think of God as a father-figure in our lives?  

Have we experienced the type of father that God desires to be in our lives?  

Do we view God as a hard father?  Critical and waiting for us to mess-up so that He can bring the hammer down on us?

Do we view God as an absent father?  We may have read that He "created" us (Psalm 139:13), but once we were "set in motion", He stepped out and we haven't heard from Him since.

Do we view God as someone else's father?  He might be a father to some people, but not to us.

    What kind of father do we view/experience God as today?

We can read Luke 15 to see the father that God describes Himself as to us.  Do we view God as this father?  He does.

 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. (12) The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.  

(13) “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.   

(14) After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. (15) So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. (16) He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.  

(17) “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! (18) I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. (19) I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ (20) So he got up and went to his father.  

“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

(21) “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’  

(22) “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. (23) Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. (24) For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.  ~Luke 15:11-24

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Happy Father's Day.  

Do we view God as our father?  He wants us to.  

He loves us deeply, as only a father can.  And (more than that), our Heavenly Father loves us beyond what we even know as love.  Before we even saw Him in our lives, He loved us.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  ~Romans 5:8

That's why God uses the story of the prodigal son as an illustration of us and Him: A lost child and a father who can't wait for him to come home.

If we have not "reunited" with our Heavenly Father, today can be the day.  He's been waiting for us.  Waiting while we wander.  Waiting while we squandered.  Waiting while we were still a long way off. 

He sees us today.  He sees us as His beloved child today. 

He is filled with compassion for us today.   

He's waiting to throw his arms around us and kiss us today.  

Embrace our Heavenly Father this Father's Day.  He wants nothing more in this world (or the next) than to spend time with us.

~~~

Happy Father's Day.  

Thank you, dad's.  

And thank you, God.

Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com

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