He is My Father and He Loves Me
My daddy is going to kill me! Sixteen years old and he has only had his driver’s license for a month. He is driving his daddy’s truck. He looks down to change the radio station. He does not see the car in front of him slowing down to make a turn. Thankfully no one is hurt, but two vehicles are damaged.
Many teenagers have heard a list of “do-nots” from their parents. Don’t hang out with people who do drugs. Don’t drink alcohol. Don’t look at your phone while driving. Remember many other do-nots. Good parents always give their teenagers freedom with boundaries. Still, most young people will mess up sometimes. And like the distracted driver who wrecked his parent’s truck, they might think, my daddy is going to kill me.”
Of course, there will be consequences for the mistakes that have been made. But when the parents arrive on the scene, they first grab the child. They hug him tightly. Mamas and daddies love their children unconditionally and nothing will change that. The most important thing right now is that their baby is safe.
My Father Loves Me
I am a child of God. He is my Father in Heaven. In Christ I am free, but there are boundaries that I should not cross. And yet I often do. This is sin. There are consequences for sin. So I stand heartbroken before God, knowing that I deserve the wages of sin. But a broken and contrite heart my Father will not despise. Because of His unconditional love for me, I am safe in the arms of God.
Borrowing a thought from Job 13:15-16 I say, God might kill me, but I have no other hope. This is what will save me. I am not Godless, nor am I Fatherless. I am made righteous by the Blood of Jesus and saved by the Grace of God. He is my Father, and He loves me.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed.
He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. 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. As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,”
Psalms 103:1-17 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.103.1-17.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
Pavement Ends Ministry Com
Email- douglas@pavementendsministry.com
thank you for another good one – many parents are absent and their children feel like they are on the outside looking in God is good.