Church Voices

The metaphor of God as father is found throughout the scriptures. The relationship between father and children communicates much to us about God. I’ve been a father for a bit over a year now (go to Living and Growing in Owosso for massive amounts of pictures) and I can definitively say that being a father has taught me more about God than almost anything else. The way my son pays attention to me, even when I don’t think he is, how he becomes insecure when he doesn’t have one of his parents in sight, and how when he hurts himself, instead of attending to the hurt he crawls to me. The other side of the coin is what I do for him. Whether its sleep deprivation or getting knuckle deep in a dirty diaper if he needs it I’ll take care of it.

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!