The Fatherhood of God

Society is more and more fatherless. Fatherlessness is behind many of the woes of our world.

The Bible tells of God as Our Father… The heart of Christianity is “knowing God as Father.”

God is our Father by choice. Not everyone knows God as Father. We can enter His family by “adoption” – He grants us all the rights and privileges of being His child.

Christ, in addressing God the Father, used the Aramaic word, “Abba” – a term of security and intimacy. It’s literally, daddy or papa.

We are chosen – adopted – into a wonderful relationship – we can have intimacy and closeness.

Our Father cares for us. Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

When a newborn baby is born into the world, he is totally dependent and helpless.

We see God’s gracious tenderness and His warmth towards us. He is tender, and caring. He deserves our love, and trust.

He guides and provides.

God our Father is the source of every blessing. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights…

The blessing of salvation comes to us from the Father, the one whose plan was carried out at the cross.

Our Father is generous in His supply.

God gives us His protection. Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalms 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. You can depend on Him and His care. He’s always got time to be with you.

God, as Father, provides us with His direction. Some families are like rudderless ships.

Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. It’s the ones who the Lord loves that He chastens…

Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The Father corrects and trains His children.

God loves you. You are worth something to Him. It is wonderful to know that God is our Father, now and forever.

He is a Father who loves us and delights in us! Psalm 103:13 says, Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

God has compassion on those who fear Him, as a father has compassion on his children.
God is full of compassion for us.

1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God…

How great is God's love!

How did God demonstrate that love? At the cross. In Romans 8:32 we read, He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

This is love - immeasurable - and beyond all comprehension.

God is a loving and forgiving Father. He is gentle and patient.

Luke 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
He is rich in His mercy and His great kindness toward us.

He sets His affection upon us.

Prayer is talking to daddy. It is talking and listening to God, our Heavenly Father, our Daddy in Heaven. Our Father wants to keep contact with us. He shows His love as He protects and comforts us.

God’s love is unconditional, undeserved. As an extra blessing, we are a family of brothers and sisters. We are called to show brotherly love to each other – to accept and support each other.
It takes God to make a home. We can trust Him.

Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

The Father wants fellowship with you. He wants you to be with Him. It’s a close relationship.

He wants to communicate with you, by His Word, and for you to communicate with Him, by prayer.

We are meant to honour our father… Malachi 1:6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts…

As the saying goes, “Like father, like (what?)” The Bible says we should clothe ourselves with Christ. We should have a striking family resemblance to our Father.

Do we make our “Dad” proud? Are we acting like we’re a son or daughter of God?

Our Lord said, Luke 2:49 “…I must be about my Father's business…” What is the Father’s business today? It could include helping the helpless, being peacemakers, soul-winning, keeping unspotted from the world. Are you about the Father’s business? How can we live in alignment to His will?