A friend & i were talking about our Father one day.
She was telling me how she was learning so much about Him - & that she didn't realize before, how much more there was to know about Him.
She's writing a beautiful book right now & it's like a tall glass of water on a hot day when she offers to let me pre-read a chapter.
Anyway - the sermon at church yesterday was about our unwillingness to trust God... & it struck me - if only we could all be introduced to the loving Father my friend writes about in her book: the Author & Finisher,
the Creator of the mighty & powerful...
& also of the weak and the frail...
The One who commands the winds and the seas,
but whose eye is on the sparrow...
The One who assigned kings
& yet saw the tears of a desolate woman in the desert, & had compassion on her...
If we could all be introduced to *that* God... How much easier would it be to trust Him?
How much of our inability to trust comes from a false view of the One who loves us most?
How much of what we believe about God comes from tradition, or misunderstanding... or lies?
In knowing Him, it becomes easier to trust Him...
In knowing Him, it becomes easier to love Him... because we see, despite His vastness, His greatness, His Holiness...
how much He loves us too.
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I think alot of our misconceptions about God as a Father stem from our own personal experiences with our earthly Fathers. When they have failed us, we somehow see that God might be the same way... (i.e. - if unconditional love was with held on earth, we feel that God does not love us and we aren't good enough).
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i totally agree, Denise...
Sometimes we need to shake up our assumptions & realize just how big He is.
Aww Paige, you have no idea. You posted that just when I needed it most. In fact the last words in my journal today were that I needed to just *trust*......so funny when that happens. I've been feeling a little nervous about the homebirth and I am trying ever so hard to let my nerves go. I am working so hard to trust right now, so thank you for those words. :)
Yes...It's His MERCY that endures forever....It's His LOVE that never fails. We have been taught that torment endures forever and His wrath is punative rather than corrective....no wonder something isn't sitting right.....
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