“FATHERS!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 532

June 22, 2021///

Sunday was Father’s Day.  Today my thoughts are on earthly and heavenly Fathers.

I thank God for my dad who was an example in word and deed to his six girls.  He gave us unconditional love but taught us lessons in creative ways so that we knew the main thing in our life should be Jesus.

My dad was not perfect as no father on earth is perfect, but we learned life lessons from him that served us in each of our daily lives.

He worked hard in both pastoring and secular jobs.  He taught himself to write better and to do things he needed to do!

My dad was defiantly not a handy man, but he knew the word of God and preached it with conviction and fervor and lived it every day of his life.

I am sure my love for Gods Word, is a least in a big part because I saw how he poured over the Word and studied it a preached it.

May I tell you that we are Loved Perfectly by our heavenly Father, and we can learn from Him and from His Word how to navigate this thing called life.

I want to tell you that if you did not grow up with a dad who showed that love and care to you, or if you did not grow up with a dad in the home, or you have no idea who your dad is, you have a Father in heaven that knows you inside out and loves you with a Love that is beyond understanding.

There is nothing that you can do or have done that will cause God to change His Love toward you! You can be secure in the Love of the Creator God who made a way, through Jesus’ death and resurrection, for us to be able to come to Him and let Him show His Love to us!

Jeremiah 31:3 (KJV)
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Romans 5:5 (KJV)
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Ephesians 3:19 (KJV)
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Romans 5:8 (KJV)
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Those are just a smattering of the incredible number of scriptures that express God’s Love for His creations.

I encourage you to search you Bible for the scriptures that will bring the truth of the Fathers Love to you.

If you are a dad, may I tell you that putting God first in your life and teaching that by word and expression is the greatest thing you can do in your entire life.

I have heard it said that if you bring multitudes to Christ but lose you children then you have failed. 

I also say that if you gain riches, fame and fortune and your family does not know that knowing the Father in heaven must be our life focus, you have failed.  I encourage each dad and mom who reads this to determine deep in your heart that your children will never have to question who is first in your life.

God, Family, Church, in that order.  Love in the home will dispel a lot of wrongs in the heart!

If you are a single mom, know that God will guide you in every decision and give you divine wisdom.  You can raise Godly children in and ungodly world as you lean on Him.  Just make sure to keep the main thing the main thing!

The home should be a place of refuge, Love, security and Godly training and discipline!

Make God, your family, and His church a priority and your children will follow!

Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Psalm 37:23 (KJV)
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

1 Peter 2:21 (KJV)
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

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Father, I come in Jesus Name.  Thank you for your Love that never changes and never fails.  Fill each person who reads this with the truth and power of that Love and may we receive it and walk in the security and joy of it.  Amen

God is Love!!  Me-Maw