“OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” AND ON EARTH

July 15, 2014

“OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” AND ON EARTH

My friends I have come to the conclusion that I will never be the perfect Father, Husband or Christian. Oh but what an example I have to follow and I can say today with no reservation that in “MY FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” AND ON EARTH a criteria and a standard was set that will always give me a benchmark to live by and reach  and when I do see MY FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” AND MY FATHER WHO RAISED ME ON EARTH in God’s kingdom I will be able to say Thank you along with my Brother Jesus Christ. “For whoever does the will of MY FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN, he is My brother and sister and mother.” Matt. 12:50 (ASV)

So much was done that we may all live throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity and as a child of a minister my expectations of the world was a lot different from my fathers because I was forever trying to move in a opposite direction but the older I got and the closer I personally got to MY FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN I can look back and see throughout my life where MY FATHER ON EARTH was trying to take me and that was to a pinnacle I will forever seek until I can here the words,

‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ Matt. 25:23 (NIV) Our foundation and one’s quest in life is mostly based on our father’s and how apparent that holds true when that element is missing from the home.

But thank God for those who can still succeed and move on with a loving mother, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle and a stable family structure in spite of a missing father for the “father is the head of the household. The wife looks to him for love and sympathy, and for aid in the training of the children.

….The children look to their father for support and guidance; he needs to have a right conception of life and of the influences and associations that should surround his family; above all, he should be controlled by the love and fear of God and by the teaching of His word, that he may guide the feet of his children in the right way.

The father is the lawmaker of the household; and, like Abraham, he should make the law of God the rule of his home. God said of Abraham, “I know him, that he will command…[and] what he requires of his children he himself should practice, illustrating these virtues in his own manly bearing.” (E.G.White Home Influence pp 390-391)

What faith, a stable foundation and spiritual guidance from Abraham the father and a test of faith from Isaac his son. “When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.” Gen 22:9-10 (ESV)

We usually speak of Abraham’s faith but the faith of  Isaac to be willing to be sacrificed. I seek daily to be an Isaac to have such faith in “OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” AND ON EARTH but the ultimate sacrifice of a FATHER and SON is exemplified in God [the FATHER WHO] so loved the world, that he gave his ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)

That is a place I hope we are all are trying to get to on this fathers day. The wiliness as a son or daughter to give it all for  “OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” “who did not spare his own Son, and a Son“who was willing to lay His life down for us. A Perfect FATHER A PERFECT SON AND A PERFECT PLAN FOR OUR SALVATION and I hope you make the perfect choice today and give it all to the one’s who gave it all to you and for you to live in a perfect kingdom.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY