He’s Just Dad
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A quick hit for this Friday…
When I woke up this morning I was spending time in prayer and God said to me that He was going to be giving me a little blessing today. I just smiled and said “OK, thanks in advance” and went on. I know many days when I feel the Lord telling me He’s blessing me that day it’s in a way that I don’t ever know or a way that I find out about long after whatever happened is finished. Today was a different story.
After my prayer time I hopped in the shower and came downstairs to get ready to meet a friend. Normally when I get up in the morning I throw on the computer to check e-mail from last night and see if anything major happened in the news. I was surprised to find an e-mail waiting from a good friend who is a record producer in Nashville. The e-mail contained a link to download a zip file that contained the new album from one of my favorite Christian singers, Paul Alan. (You’ve seen me mention him on the blog before and his song “Leaving Lonely” is the song on my MySpace profile.) The new CD was scheduled originally for February and the month came and went without any news so for it to suddenly appear in my e-mail was definitely a little blessing!
I love the way God is a loving father. So often when we’re facing the day to day we forget that God loves us and sees us as we see our own children. I know the things my children like and I try to do things so that I can provide them with the things they love. When I’m not with them and see something I know they would love I pick it up to surprise them later knowing how happy it will make them to receive that gift from their father. God is the same way with us!
Jesus said in John 14:23 (ESV): “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” When you think of “home” what you want it to be? A place of comfort? A place of refuge? A place where you can just be whoever you and you’ll be accepted? Most of all…do you think of loving parents that love you and want you to be there and provide thing to you that they know you like? That’s the same thing that God wants to have with us. He wants us to be in a place where He will be right there alongside us through the good and the bad just like a father to a child.
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