Father Heart Of God Series

“Shes bossing me!” the little weeper says about her sister.

It turns out that the tragedy has been caused by her sister stopping her putting on one of her mother’s silk scarves.

At once you turn from the dripping victim and call in the older sister, that dastardly girl.

“But mum says you can’t wear that,” the sister tells the little one.

“I know but you still can’t boss me and snatch it away,” the little one says with her own wondrous logic.

And she underscores her point by starting to cry again and flinging herself on the bed. She has lost so much fluid that you fear she needs an IV of saline solution.

After thanking the older sister for the information you quickly go to the mother and plead the little ones case.

“Our youngest daughter is having a nervous breakdown because she wants to wear your scarf for a little while”, you say.

The Mother now gives you a particular reason; because she says so. As you return to the child, you are filled with anguish over her plight. She, however, not only has stopped crying, but is happily playing with something else.

Call it just another part of being a father; trying to catch up with misery and joy.

The “our”in our Father has been terribly misunderstood.

It is this kind of dynamic that causes Jesus to tell us to

Forgive one another – to love one another and to pray Our father.

Now there are all kind of discussions held in our modern world about the status and the3 role of the word Father.

Many of the problems raised are important and many of the issues are real.

This is not what we are talking about here – we are discussing the revelation of God as our Father and the scriptural revelation and relevance of that.

I will leave the other discussions to more learned people.

What we are trying to idscover here is the character of God’s love for us and the healing power of his love for our lives.

The reason for this is – who you are and what you become is affected and defined by your parents.

Your geneology affects who you are.

One of the great tragedies in the Western world and one of the causes of the decline of the Church in the west has been the loss of comprehension as God as our Father.

We live in a world where identity has been a major issue.

Floyd McClung in his book “The Father Heart of God.” Talks about a lost generation who wandered the world in the 1960’s and 70’s looking for a sense of purpose and identity.

The incredible sadness was that they were on a journey of futiility as the answer lay at home. For beneath the veneer of busyness and capitalism was a reveered God who had bought the blessing of prosperity in the first place and who could have been depeended on for continuity and meaning had he not been pigeonholed in the insatiable thirst for more.

Contrast all of this with Jesus Christ.

It has been said of Jesus that no-one influenced the world as he did.

Who, in your opinion,

is the most outstanding personality of all time?

I have posed this question to people of many religions, even atheists and Communists around the world. The answer from all knowledgeable people is always the same: "Jesus of Nazareth."