Who am I? My relationship with God through prayer (part 15)

 

God is the Father. That relationship encompasses and is far greater than any of the definitions I can put to Him. God is Good (Matt 19:17), God is Love (1 John 4:8) and all that is summed up in Father. Our Father. The Good and loving Father. He is in charge of His house, He knows and calls His children to Him. He supplies, supports, trains, instructs His children with, as in the Dan Fogelberg song, a thundering velvet hand. Most people cannot grasp that concept of God being Daddy, because they do expect thunderbolts to come down. Mostly because in their sin nature most people have been conditioned to fear Him, in the sense of worrying about their fate in His presence. And it is true, in the sense that it would be a shame to be in the hands of an angry God. But God, by letting his children put Christ on when baptized and by sending His son to earth that His children could learn and do His will, has given us this grace and love. He is Father, and He makes it plain to me that He wants me to be His child. Some people have the harsh God in mind only because human fathers are sometimes overly strict disciplinarians with no room for compassion. Some fathers on earth are alcoholics who don’t worry about the effect of that on their children, some are even abusive in that condition. Some are child abusers and pedophiles. No wonder some people see God as mean. But what we forget is that this is not God our Father. Because we forget that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. Isaiah 55:8, and our ways are not His ways. He is totally different from anything I will ever encounter, because I have put so much between the world and my true self, whereas God has nothing between Himself and His world. What one sees is what one gets.  “I am Who am” as God told Moses to tell His people. In conjunction with this, is God Who is the creator, Who sent Jesus (Who is after all God, but He is the God made flesh) to create this Earth (Isaiah 45:6-18) .God and only God can build. God and only God can raise some one from the dead. And it is God and Jesus that hold the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Isaiah 29:18-25 and Col 2:1-3. And again and forever God is in control. (Isaiah 40:4-11) God is exalted above all.