The Father We All Need

As the God-appointed leaders of a home, fathers have great responsibility to love, protect, and provide for their families. Unfortunately, not all fathers have fulfilled those responsibilities. If you have a great father, you certainly have reason to celebrate him on Father’s Day. If you have not had a great father, this day might bring back some bad memories, or you might find this day a struggle. If you are a father, maybe you try to be a good father but find it difficult to fulfill the duties of such a high calling. No matter the situation, no human father will ever be perfect, no matter how much they try (or don’t try). Fathers are just as much in need of God, the Heavenly Father, as the rest of us! When we put our trust in God, we all will find Him to be our ultimate leader, protector, and provider.

In one of the great examples of God as our Father, He gave us a way to overcome the power of sin and death and eternal separation from Him. By sending Jesus Christ to die in our place and then rise again to overcome death, He provided a way, through our faith in Christ, to be adopted sons and daughters of God (Ephesians 1:5).

“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:26).

“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (1 John 3:1).

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

When we trust in Jesus Christ for salvation, we are given the Holy Spirit who reminds us and guarantees us of our eternal home in Heaven with the Father.

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father” (Romans 8:14-15).

With God as our Father, we receive everything we need in this life and the next.

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).

We are then able to take His blessings and bless others.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

Through Jesus Christ, we can ask the Father for anything as we seek to glorify Him in the world (see John 15:16).

He invites us to pray to Him, to commune with Him, and to seek Him for all that we need.

“Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen” (Matthew 6:8-13).

God is the best Father any of us can have. He gave us all we need to experience His love, guidance, and protection, by sending Jesus Christ in the world to rescue us from sin and death, and by sending the Holy Spirit to strengthen and encourage us for the journey here as we look to eternal life.

And for that reason, we can all celebrate Father’s Day!