“God The Great Father”

Romans 8:16: The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

God is our father, and we are his children. After, so many hours, days, and years of sitting and being vigilant. I comprehend that we are all adrift in so many ways. We drift through our days and our lives think that we are all acceptable. We all go round and round never to come full circle. We also, seem to have lost site that we are the children of God. Though He is always there with his hands out and ready to welcome us. Yet we are blinded by the enemy, by sin, that we cant recognize that God has adopted all of us and refuse His eternal love for us.

I could start to say that Father's Day is a pulchritudinous day. It’s a day dedicated to honoring fathers and father figures, recognizing their contributions to their children’s lives. Whether it’s biological fathers, stepfathers, or other male role models, Father’s Day celebrates fatherhood and male parenting. Yet we can’t forget our True Father, our good father.

One of the most commendable gifts God gave me during my treacherous journeys was a superior comprehension of His unconditional love for me.

I studied and comprehended that I did not have to struggle for God’s attention. All that I needed, I already obtained: He is my Father, and I am His child.

God's Holy Spirit, given to us by God when we became His children through faith in Christ, that we call out to God as Father. There is another name to the Spirit: "Spirit of adoption." God adopted us into His family. In Romans 8, its emphasizes that communication between us and God is one of the key works of God's Spirit in us. The communication goes in both directions. The Spirit, we can communicate with God at the most basic level. We cry to Him and He hears from us Father!" Romans 8:26–27 goes even further, showing that the Spirit is the one who takes our prayers, even when we don't know what to pray, to the heart of our Father. In these verses, the communication goes the other way. God communicates from His Spirit to our spirit that we are His children. His Spirit "bears witness," keeps communicating to us over and over that we belong in God's family now that we are in Christ. He confirms to us what is true on some deep and unspoken level. The confidence we carry that we belong to God, not because of our goodness or effort but because of His love for us, comes directly from God's Spirit with us.

- Matthew 10:37-39 esv.

37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:37-39, these verses change a lot of views. They way we view our relationship with the father changes. Changes so much because our focus changes and pointed in the wrong direction. I don't mean that children should not love and respect their parents, or that parents shouldn't love their children but rather that Jesus is infinitely above all creatures and should be loved more than the nearest and dearest relations and friends.

Division will take place even between immediate family members. Fathers and sons will turn on each other, as well mothers and daughters. The issue will be belief in Jesus Himself. Is He the Messiah, the Son of God? Those who refuse to acknowledge Him will reject those of their own family who put their faith in Jesus and begin to follow His ways (1 Peter 4:3–4).

This will force many of Jesus' followers to make a difficult choice. Will they keep peace with their parents and/or children by denying faith in Jesus? Or will they be willing to lose connection to their family members in order to continue to follow Jesus and acknowledge to others that He is the Christ? Jesus is demanding His rightful place in the hearts of His people. They must love Him more than all others and demonstrate that is true if forced to make a choice. This does not change Scripture's demand that children honor their parents (Ephesians 6:2) and that parents provide for their children (Ephesians 6:4; 1 Timothy 5:8). Jesus does not say "do not love" those other people—what He says is that we ought to love God more. Loving others is the second greatest commandment, but it is behind the first: to love God with everything we have (Matthew 22:34–40). In making this statement, Jesus continues to make the claim that He is God. Love and obedience to Him must come before obedience to any other person or group (Acts 5:29).