iMeditate Mondays: A Father's Love

Our father

We love to call you

By your grace you have adopted

Now we're your children

You now receive us

Joint heirs with Jesus

Our father, our father

Your awesome love

You've shown to us

Goes beyond our wildest dreams

You saturate our lives with grace and mercy

and because you love

You chasten us

If we should go astray

like a Father

our Father

(Fred Hammond; Our Father)

A Father's love we rarely hear or think about. We understand so much about a mother's love....it is unconditional, deep, the bonding experience that starts in her womb and doesn't cease. Society hasn't helped either, such a negative picture of what true fatherhood is all about.

Our Father, Daddy, Abba, Baba, Nna...

the one we should run to and not away from when we have problems

the one who protects us from danger

the one who provides for us

the one who gives us a sense of identity

the one who deals with issues

the one who disciplines us when we go wrong

How many of us have that deep relationship with our fathers? How many of us would use the word intimate? Does he know our secrets? Can we trust him with our secrets? Can we tell him anything and everything?

We should not blame our earthly fathers for they are men who even at their very best are unable to give love perfectly. For they are human and thus imperfect, one can only do their best. At their very best cannot equal the very least of God's love for us. I want to deepen my relationship with my fathers...my earthly one and my Heavenly one. Telling them where it hurts, spending time with them, drawing closer and being a daddy's girl. Aint nothing wrong with that. Because Daddy loves his girls...so very much.

Meditations from ZoeB @ GH 30.1.11