Father’s Day, one day each year where we are supposed to
stop or at least slow down to honor our dad’s, or a dad figure in our lives. Oh
yes, the traditional gifts of ties, mugs and other little gestures to show our
appreciation for dad’s place in our homes will all be given. These are all
fine, and as a dad I’ve always loved these things from my children.
When we think of God, our heavenly Father, how are we
supposed to honor Him? We can start by realizing that God is real, every bit as
real as our earthly father’s. He is alive, loving, patient, forgiving, and like
our earthly father’s, He wants everything that is good for all of us. We have
never met Him face to face, although we see His presence if we look closely.
Unlike our earth fathers, we don’t really know what His voice sounds like,
although He does speak to us every day. We honor a daddy God, whom we’ve never
met, by believing in His Son, Jesus. We allow Him into our hearts each day
through trails, and triumphs. We read His book with friends, so the words, and
the Word, become a part of our daily existence. We laugh, cry and pray with Him
always, and are never alone, even in a crowd when we speak His name. We honor
Him, by loving our earth fathers, and by being loving fathers ourselves.
God still owns the world. Psalm 24:1 NIV tells us this. The
earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. He
prompts ordinary people like you and me, to keep telling the world that there
is hope in Him. When we show the world the face of Jesus, by how we treat each
other in love, then eventually, even those who say they don’t believe, will
come to know Him. Those who are estranged from Him, will come back to Him, and
those who think they are not worthy of His love and grace, will accept Him.
Let this Father’s Day be the day that we all slow down, and
allow that breath you catch, to be the one that says, Father God, Happy
Father’s Day with love from me, a child of the King.
Mike Shindruk
www.mastershandministry.blogspot.ca
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