Young Adults' Group

Appreciate God As Our Heavenly Father

by Pastor Mark
June 14, 2018

Celebrating Father’s Day

This Sunday, we celebrate Father’s Day. We thank God for all our fathers who have done their part in raising us up and in being there for us throughout all these years. We see fathers as a blessing from the Lord. They have worked hard to provide for the family and we do want to specially remember them as we celebrate this special occasion.

Even more, we want to remember God as our heavenly Father who is the source of all our blessings. There are a number of significant passages in the Old Testament that describes for us what God as Father is like and how wonderful He is.

Appreciating God as our Father

1. Our Father carries us as His children

“and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.” (Deut 1:31)

This is a most precious description of the wonderful relationship that God as Father had with Israel. One of the most tender ways in which a father would relate to his son was to carry him. Through the wilderness, the Lord lovingly carried Israel as His son. He protected Israel from the nations, led it through the wilderness with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire and provided them with food, water and lasting clothing. Let us appreciate how God lovingly carried Israel as His son to the promised land.

2. Our Father pities us His children

“As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.” (Ps 103:13,14)

Another touching passage about God as Father is found the psalms of David that describes the pity…the sympathy of God. Even though we may sin against our heavenly Father, He would take pity on us as a father pities his son when he does something wrong. To those who fear Him, the Lord would show His pity. He knows that we are but dust and there is nothing good about us. Let us appreciate the sympathy that our heaven Father has for us.

3. A Father to the fatherless

“A father of the fatherless, a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.” (Ps 68:5)

We also deeply appreciate how God looks out for those who are underprivileged in the world. There are those who are fatherless. They do not have fathers to care for them. The Lord becomes their Father and specially cares for them. As a church, we seek to do our part in caring for the fatherless in Myanmar through our orphanage. It is indeed a joy that we can share with these who are fatherless that they have a Father in heaven who cares for them specially.

4. Our Father as our potter

“But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.” (Isa 64:8)

As Father, God seeks to work on our life. He is our Potter and we are the clay. Israel was the work of His hands. All of us are also the works of His hand. We thank God that as our Father, He seeks to mould our life into what He wants us to be. Let us be challenged to praise and give thanks to God for being the kind of Father that He is to us.

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