God is giving revelation of His love for His children, and He wants to pour out His love onto His children. He is our "daddy" who is not complete without his children. Parents feel complete when they are able to pour their love onto their children and have that child respond to the goodness their love. That is what God is waiting for.
As a parent the most hurtful thing my children could do would be to turn their backs on me, and not respond to the love that I have for them. Their very beings were engraved on my heart when they were formed in my womb. I am part of them, and they are part of me. I am not complete without them in my life. My daughter-in-law and grandchildren are a part of my very soul and being as well. My life would not be complete without them. There would be a part of me missing. That is what true love is, and that is the love God has for us. It is not about us, it is everything about Him, and the undying, ever increasing, never ceasing love He has for us. We are His masterpieces hand crafted with the greatest of care, and forever engraved on the palm of His hand. Our names are not just written in ink that can be easily removed if we do the wrong thing, they are engraved, carved in His palm never to be removed or covered up.
In the church service Dr. Paul Gervaise, our visiting minister, spoke of the Father's love. He spoke of a parent that loved each of us so much that he sent his son to die for all of us, all of the infirmities, all of the sins of the world, for all those unjust and evil. As a parent, he sent -- willingly -- His only son to die a horrible death for all of us, out of His love. The only thing He was left with was the Holy Spirit to comfort him until his son rejoined him at his right hand. Then the comforter was not needed: he had his son back. So he graciously sent the comforter to us in the absence of his son until we join him in heaven. It struck me that if the comforter, the Holy Spirit, was enough to support and help God through this time during which he had to watch his son go through His destiny, the comforter should be enough for us, too. We are hidden in Christ, and Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father, so we are above all that dwells in this earth, and the comforter is with us. What a great gift!!!! This is the very comforter that comforted God himself!
Much like we love giving gifts to our children and grandchildren, God loves to give gifts to us, His children. He is waiting for us to receive them, and to respond to his love. Could you give up one of your children at any age to go through what the Son of God did, for the likes of mankind? That is what God did for you and for me in spite of us. When Jesus was on that cross, and said, "It is finished" he was saying that the separation from God is over, and no matter what, we have the opportunity to be seated with him at the table of our Father. We have the same DNA running through our blood that Jesus has in his, and that God has in His. We are God's children, He is a loving Father, and will you allow Him to love on you? If you don't know Jesus as your personal savior or if you don't know God as a loving, generous "daddy", please e-mail me. I will call you or have someone call you to pray with you so that you don't have to go another day without the loving Father in your life.
