Posted on 10/05/2009 5:33:50 AM PDT by Faith
For all fathers who are terrified of being fathers.
SCRIPTURE
A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation.
-- Psalm 68:5
REFLECTION by Randolph Sly
I had a friend many years ago who confided in me that he was terrified of being a father. He and his wife already had two children when this revelation came forth. "I never knew my father," he explained, "and I have no idea what a father is supposed to do."
We continued to share about this, as well as pray together. He began to see he had a father's heart for his children. His biggest problem was not a limitation on love but not knowing how to act out this love.
One day we talked about the verse quoted at the top of this page. I shared that he did know his Father... not his biological father but his Heavenly Father, who had rescued him from a life of destruction not many years before.
"How did your Heavenly Father guide you?" I asked. He talked about the ways he had seen God's love offered to him and the way the Lord had used circumstances and the Scriptures to mold him and mature him. "Well, the Lord wants to do the same thing through you for your children. Be available to His love and available to your kids. You'll do fine."
How wonderful it is to know that God takes a personal interest in each of us, many times using His faithful people -- the Church -- as channels of this love. No one is fatherless who lives in the Lord. His fatherly care begins at the moment of our conception, as it is written, "you knit me together in my mother's womb" (Psalm 139:12), and continues to be poured upon us throughout our lives.
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we thank you for caring about each of us so deeply. Help us to see and know you as our Father in heaven each and every day of our lives.
Your loving hand also rests on every child today carried in its mother's womb. May they be born into this world and come to know fully and personally your endless love. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
Holy God,
Getting involved is sometimes difficult. It is so much easier to walk away from problems and claim that they do not concern us. But we know that Your Word tells us that we ARE to be concerned and involved in the problems of others, and that we ARE to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Give us the will to pray for these precious babies and their parents, the courage to act, and the desire to extend our love to those who have no other hope. Make us open to Your leading in all things; for whatever You have asked us to do, You have promised that You will equip us to do. May the Name of Jesus Christ be glorified. Amen.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Amen.
Psalm 91:16 ~
“With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Fifty million babies who will never know life because man has become god.
“Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7
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