I Corinthians 8:6 My Relationship with Father God
“…yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (NIV).
God, my Father, is eternal, and He has always known me. It has been my great joy for many years to know Him. He has known me as His son for eternity, and now, I know Him as my Father God.
I am overwhelmed that God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, not only knows me but loves me, and He created all this, the entire universe, because He wanted to have fellowship with me. I do have fellowship with Him daily in my prayers. And I think of Him every time I look at all that He had created. I say
“had created” because the verse quoted above says, “all things came from Him,” and it also says that all things came through Jesus. To me, that means that God provided the materials and that Jesus put them together by His spoken Word to form the universe. So God owns everything, and I owe Him everything I have. But He asks for only ten percent of it back in the form of the tithe. It’s important to me to return that small portion to Him though offerings to my church.
“had created” because the verse quoted above says, “all things came from Him,” and it also says that all things came through Jesus. To me, that means that God provided the materials and that Jesus put them together by His spoken Word to form the universe. So God owns everything, and I owe Him everything I have. But He asks for only ten percent of it back in the form of the tithe. It’s important to me to return that small portion to Him though offerings to my church.
God has given me everything I have, including each breath that I take. I feel confident in receiving that breath because “every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows” James 1:17 (NIV). He gives me “good and perfect gifts,” and He will do so forever because He “does not change like shifting shadows.” I can count on Him every day for everything.
I, like Adam, have sinned, and I know that sin is not permitted in the presence of God, but He even made provision for that by sending His Son, Jesus, to carry all of my sins on Himself. Second Corinthians 5:21 tells us that “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (NIV). He did this so that we could fellowship together.
Father God, our omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent God, loves me and He desires that I know that He loves me, and He wants me to love Him back. The most magnificent being in the universe yearns for my love. My relationship to Father God is that of a favorite child who disobeyed his father, thereby also disappointing Him. But He does not want me to feel like a disappointment. He wants me to feel like a favored son who never disappointed Him. In fact, He says in His Word that when He looks at me He sees His “only begotten Son,” Jesus, and not my sinful deeds . Bottom line—FATHER GOD LOVES ME with all His omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence.
Thank you for sharing your relationship with the Father.
Thank you for sharing your relationship with the Father.
. Thank you for sharing my dear friend.