God, Your Father, Loves You.

       This weekend we celebrate Father’s Day. For some this day brings lots of joy and happy memories of dad. But for others this day may bring some heartache. For the latter, God is deeply concerned about the fatherless. He promises to be their father. (Ps 27:10) In fact, there is no image used more often of God than Him as Father. In one of the first glimpses we have of God, he is seeking a relationship with His child. “Adam . . . Where are you?” (Gen. 3:9). He is concerned with the whereabouts of his child. But he wasn’t asking because He didn’t know, He was asking a rhetorical question for the benefit of the listener. He was not asking to condemn like a policeman either, you don’t know the heart of God if you read this question as though God were on the prowl as judge. Read it as though God were a brokenhearted Father, mourning over a child who is lost. This is the father we see waiting for the prodigal son to come home, this is what God is like, because God, your Heavenly Father, deeply loves you. Happy Father’s Day.