Father

This song/video tells an amazing story of parental love in relation to God's love for us. Obviously, since its between a dad and daughter, it was easy for me to draw correlations between my own dad and myself. My dad and I didn't have a picture perfect relationship, but I do believe that he prayed for me every day of my life and he sought to do his best to point me to Jesus. 

More than that though, I just want to sing this song over my son. There is a prideful and jealous part of me that DOES want to be everything that Finn needs. But there is wisdom in me that knows that I could never love Finn the way he needs to be loved by my own strength: in firmness and gentleness, in proclamation and action, in grace and correction, in completeness and selflessness. I have searched and the only One I have found who can love like that is God. 

Since I was a teenager and rededicated my life to God, I have clung to the characteristic of God that promises that He is my Father God. Perhaps it is because I wasn't very close with my own dad. God is the Father who loves perfectly because He is love. And He is perfect. 

1 John 3:1 - "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"