All People’s Dad
Members of our church have been picking up a ten-year-old girl and bringing her to church since she was around six months old. I’ll call her Sophia. It has been a joy to see the evidence of what Sophia has taken in during these ten years. Last night our daughter drew my attention to something Sophia had written on the whiteboard. It read:
I love God so much and Jesus because They are special and good and wise and loving and helpful. All people’s dad.
All people’s dad. Jesus taught that. In His instruction, again and again He spoke to His listeners about their Father. He told them:
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36
Your light must shine
before people in such a way
that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father
who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16
. . . your Father knows what you need
before you ask Him.
Matthew 6:8b
And when He taught them how to pray, He told them to pray to “Our Father, who is in heaven . . . .”
One of the most important things you will ever teach your children is that God is their Father.
Because you are sons,
God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts,
crying out, “Abba! Father!”
Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son;
and if a son, then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:6
