FATHER’S HEART
Eph 6:1-4 MKJV
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
On the 7th day of the new millennium, for a very first time I stepped into a new category of life, living behind my childhood, teenage and youth mind set and began to enter into the world called ‘fatherhood’. I was 30 years old then and was very glad to be called as ‘appa’ (daddy in Tamil).
My wife Josephine, bore a beautiful, chubby, cute little baby girl - Judith Kavitra - (Judith: which means She Who Praises & Kavithra: A Poet). My heart just melts when I gaze upon her pretty face and songs of joy bubbles up within me when I carry, hug and played with her.
Day by day, my heart just longs to be with her, talk, play and admire her beauty but I realize something… Judith did not only arouse the excitement of a father figure within me but began to teach me to carry new responsibilities as a father.
It’s true that no man is perfect, so are the fathers on this planet earth. We think we can love our kids to the point of death but sometimes we even fail them. We think we are caring enough but many times lost in the world of ‘busyness’ until we got no time even to say ‘hi!’ to them. We think we know every heart beat of our child yet quite often they go unheard of their inner feelings and desires that may eventually lead them to wrong structure of life.
On the other side, we as parents will surely have the feeling that we should get the honor, praise, thanksgiving and exaltation for raising up our children whether in good times or bad moments but in many occasion the parents get hurt and downcast just because these requirements are simply not met. Who are to be blamed?
Looking at all these, we may go frustrated and say to ourselves – “What in the world we need to do? Aaahhh!! I just care less...and why should I love and in return what I gain?” (Yes! Let me tell you that you’ve just sounded very human). Now is the time for us to think beyond our human understanding...not just dwelling in the natural but in the supernatural.
Earlier I draw the picture of an earthly father figure in your hearts and also the children's so called ‘misbehavior's’ that could cause the parents to be broken hearted .... but now I’m turning the table upside down for you to see, think and understand the other side of the picture. (If you don’t mind, would you please continue to follow me?)
Just as we are so concern for our little ones, the Father in Heaven is even more caring towards us and always seeking to love us and to be loved by us but often times He is heart broken because we don't respond to His call. He longs to communicate and be with us, to cuddle or embrace, play and even joke with us but we walk away from His presence because we got something much more important to settle.
You may ask: "When did I ever walk away from God's presence or neglected Him? Hey! Do you know that I don't miss any of the church services or programs?"
You sound quite right by saying that but at times we forgot to remember the uncountable days where we just rushed away to work without realizing that our Father in Heaven has been waiting to chat with us since the early morning. How do you think He would have felt? Only ‘God knows!’
How about the promises we made with God periodically that we would study and meditate on His Word (The Bible) everyday but couldn't really fulfill it because running short of time. Don't you think this reason also could have broken His sensitive heart?
Friends, He longs to speak unto our life through His powerful Word but we neglected Him, thinking that ‘He understands’ and it's okay if we don't keep our word, simply because He is GOD who Forgives and Forgets.
When our own children and loved ones turn away from us, disobey, misbehave or even neglect us, we feel down and out (sometimes, shed tears of hurt or even go without meal for days).
Just a moment, now put our Father God in that situation and think for a while how we could have hurt His feelings when we did the same to Him.
Dear people of God, now is the right time for us to turn our hearts to the Everlasting Father and give Him the opportunity and the privilege to commune with us daily. Yes! Daily. By doing this I believe the heart of the Father God will surely turn to us in a very special way to make us a holy generation.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!
The End.
> B.Kumarathevan
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