Hi, again ladies:) This is Set Apart Girl signing in. I hope you are doing well and I pray that God will continue to bless and keep you.
Yesterday, a friend of mine said something very interesting: she said that we, as women, tend to expect our husbands or future husbands to be just like our fathers. She said that it might not be intentional but that we sub-conciously categorise their similarities and differences and "rate" our spouses based on what our fathers were like.
On the other hand, I was thinking about what she said later that day and I realised that the analogy could also be related to God. I think that we expect God to be like our fathers. For instance, when I first gave my life to Christ, I was very fearful that I would do something to make God leave me, so I felt that I had to do everything perfectly. Because my earthly father deserted me, I thought that I had to "perform" in order for God to love me. We expect God to have all of the faults and shortcomings of our fathers. But ladies, the TRUTH is that our heavenly Father is faultless. He is the perfect Father. So don't look for His shortcomings because there are none. Don't try to catalogue His faults because He doesn't have any. When I realised that I was doing this, I had to surrender it to Him and allow Him to show me Who He was and as I learned His character, I found out that He is the perfect Father. So, I challenge you, if you are doing the same thing, surrender it to God and let Him teach you Who He truly is, through His Word and through His work in your life.
1 John 3:1(NLT) "See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for He allows us to be called His children, and we really are!"
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life" Can you imagine that??? God, the creator of this universe, allowed His son to die so that He could adopt us and call us His own. So the next time you feel tempted to allow who your heavenly Father is to be shadowed by who your earthly father is, just offer it in prayer to Daddy Dearest and He will show you who He really is :) ~This is SetApartGirl signing out.
Yesterday, a friend of mine said something very interesting: she said that we, as women, tend to expect our husbands or future husbands to be just like our fathers. She said that it might not be intentional but that we sub-conciously categorise their similarities and differences and "rate" our spouses based on what our fathers were like.
On the other hand, I was thinking about what she said later that day and I realised that the analogy could also be related to God. I think that we expect God to be like our fathers. For instance, when I first gave my life to Christ, I was very fearful that I would do something to make God leave me, so I felt that I had to do everything perfectly. Because my earthly father deserted me, I thought that I had to "perform" in order for God to love me. We expect God to have all of the faults and shortcomings of our fathers. But ladies, the TRUTH is that our heavenly Father is faultless. He is the perfect Father. So don't look for His shortcomings because there are none. Don't try to catalogue His faults because He doesn't have any. When I realised that I was doing this, I had to surrender it to Him and allow Him to show me Who He was and as I learned His character, I found out that He is the perfect Father. So, I challenge you, if you are doing the same thing, surrender it to God and let Him teach you Who He truly is, through His Word and through His work in your life.
1 John 3:1(NLT) "See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for He allows us to be called His children, and we really are!"
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life" Can you imagine that??? God, the creator of this universe, allowed His son to die so that He could adopt us and call us His own. So the next time you feel tempted to allow who your heavenly Father is to be shadowed by who your earthly father is, just offer it in prayer to Daddy Dearest and He will show you who He really is :) ~This is SetApartGirl signing out.
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