Number 113:  June 17, 2007

Today is Father’s Day. According to Webster’s Dictionary the first usage of father is a male parent. The second usage is a way to describe God. It takes a male parent to get us born into this world, and it takes God to get us born again, born a second time.

I Peter 1:23:

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Our earthly father may gift us good gifts, but our heavenly gives us His gift of holy spirit.

Luke 11:13:

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

This gift allows us to communicate directly with Him. It is the token by which we know we have an inheritance. It gives us eternal life. It is something always to be thankful for.

I John 2:25:

And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

II Corinthians 9:15:

Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable [indescribable] gift.

The one true God Who is the Father of our Lord and Saviour is the only real God.

I Corinthians 8:5 and 6:

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

God our Father wants us to communicate with Him, wants us to have fellowship with Him. We should want to exert the necessary effort to get to know Him better. He wants us to learn His Word which is His will. He wants to bless us in so many different ways.

I John 1:3:

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

On this Father’s Day, remember your earthly father, but also take some time alone with your heavenly Father. Both of your father’s will appreciate it.