Drag It Up

WAS YOUR FATHER

GENEROUS, GENTLE & GRACIOUS?

Your Heavenly Father is. The problem is that we see the Father

through our earthly father. We are all given lenses at some point

in our childhood, and we still wear them even as we begin to

parent our own children. The lenses gray our understanding of

the Father. Who is He? What does He think of me? Does He

accept me? Is He proud of me? What does He want from me?

Herein lies the beauty of the gospel: In Christ, our lenses are

removed so we can clearly see the Father, and, in Christ, the

Father puts on lenses and sees us through His perfect Son!

This means that in the Gospel we can see what the Father is like.

God the Father not only exemplifies fatherhood, but He empowers us in the Gospel to father like Him. If we can see the Father,

we can image the father to our children.

So what is the Father like?

Let’s remove the lenses and see.