God is Our Father

There are different ways that people view God. Some people see God as a stranger. They don’t really know him. He is distant from them, and they feel separated from him. Other people view God as a stern judge, sitting up in heaven, just waiting to strike them down for a minor infraction. Others see God as an impersonal power or force.

It’s important to have the right conception of God. In many ways, our conception of God determines our experience of God.

It’s especially important for us to view God accurately when we pray. When we understand who God really is, then we can relate to him effectively.

We see God correctly through the lens of his word. Jesus Christ is the word of God, and Jesus shows us who God is. As we read the Bible and see Jesus more clearly, we learn about the reality of God. When we see God as he really is, then we can experience him.

Satan loves to pervert our view of God and make us misunderstand him in order to try to disconnect us from him. We need God’s word to demolish these lies.

Jesus wants us to see God as our Father. He said that when we pray, we should address God as “our Father.” God is the Father of everyone because he has created every person. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is his child. To become a child of God, we must believe in Jesus Christ and be born again. God is therefore the Father more specifically of everyone who believes in Jesus. Weare born again and adopted into God’s family. We have peace with God and are in a relationship with him.

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children ofGod!” (1 John 3:1).

God loves his children! He takes care of them.

To approach our good Father, we should do in faith.

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6).

We must have faith in two things about God. First, we must believe that God exists. There is no point in praying to someone who we don’t believe exists. Second, we must believe that God rewards those who seek him diligently. Praying to a god who doesn’t care, hear, or respond to our prayers is pointless. This is not our God.

Jesus taught us to pray in faith.

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:9-13)

God is our Father. He created us. He made us his children through his Holy Spirit. He delights in giving good gifts to us. The main gift that we need from God is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who will translate all the bountiful grace of God into our lives.

Let us see God as he is – our Father. As we see him accurately, we will open the door for his blessing.