My morning time with God began with my usual greeting to God standing out in a glorious way, “Our Father in heaven”.[1] I was overwhelmed with wonder-filled thoughts that God is OUR Father, that he is the FATHER we are all looking for, and that he is IN HEAVEN, in heavenly distinction from every other father in the whole wide world.
All of this means that our time with God is
radically and wonderfully different than anything we have experienced from our
dads (just sayin’).
I ended up looking at many Scriptures that
talk about this relationship we have, especially in the emphasis that we now
have the same relationship to God as Father as belongs to Jesus. As unthinkable
as it is, Jesus wants us to know HIS Father as OUR Father.
The passage I settled into, likely for a
few days, is something Jesus included in his High Priestly prayer of John 17.
Here is an introduction, separated into distinct thoughts so you can see where
my meditations on the word are going:
“My sheep…”
“My sheep hear my voice,”
“and I know them,”
“and they follow me.”
“I give them eternal life,”
and they will never perish,”
“and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”
“My Father,”
“My Father, who has given them to me,”
“is greater than all,”
“and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.”
“I and the Father are one.”[2]
I have found a vein of gold in the quarry,
and what I have seen today promises me so many treasures of wisdom and knowledge
as I continue to dig away through the rest of the week. Today, “OUR Father
in heaven,” will be the treasure in my hand that holds my wondering heart
in worship and praise that such a thing is true.
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