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ON FAITH:
Do You Believe?
The Father’s Love Letter: (By Barry
Adams)
The
words you are about to experience are true. They will change your life if you
let them. For they come from the very heart of God. He loves you and he is the
father you have been looking for all your life this is his love letter to you:
My
child you may not know me but I know everything about you. I know when you sit
down and when you rise up. I am familiar with all your ways. (Ps. 139:1- 3). Even
the very hair on head are numbered. (Mt. 10:30). You were made in my image. (Gen.
1:27). In me you live move and have your being. (Acts 17: 28). For you are my
offspring. (Acts 17: 28). I knew you even before you were conceived. (Jeremiah
139:1) I chose you when I planned creation. (Eph 1:11-12). You were not a
mistake, for all your days are written in my book. (Ps 139:15-16). I determined
the exact time of your birth and where you would live. (Acts 17:26). You are
fearfully and wonderfully made. (Ps 139:14). I knit you together in your
mother’s womb. (Ps 139:13) And brought you forth on the day you were born. (Ps 71:6). I have been misrepresented by
those who do not know me. (John 8:41-44). I am not distant and angry but I am
the complete expression of love. (1John 4:17). It is my desire to lavish my
love on you. Simply because you are my child and I am your father. (1John 3:1).
I offer you more than your earthly father could. (Mat. 7:14). For I am the
perfect father. (Mat.6:48). Every good gift that you receive comes from my
hand. (Js 1:17) I am your provider and meet all your needs. (Mat. 6:31-33). My plan for your future has
always been filled with hope. (Jer. 29:11). Because I love you with an
everlasting love. (Jer. 31:3). My
thoughts towards you are countless as sands on the seashore. (Ps. 139:17-18). I
rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17). I will never stop doing good
to you. (Jer. 32:40). You are my treasured possession. (Ex. 19:5). I desire to
establish you with all my heart and all my soul. (Jer. 32:41). And I want to
show you great and marvelous things. (Jer. 33:33) If you seek me with all your
heart you will find me. (Deu. 4:29). Delight in me and I will give you the desire
of your heart. (Ps. 37:4). For it is I who give you those desires. (Phil. 2:13). I am able to do more for you than you can
possible imagine. (Eph. 3:20). For I am your greatest encourager. (2 Thes. 2:
16-17) I am also the father who comforts in your troubles. (2Cor. 1: 3-4). When
you are broken hearted I am close to you. (Ps. 34:18). As a shepherd carries a
lamb, I have carried you close to my heart. (Is. 40:11). One day I will wipe
away every tear from your eyes. (Rev. 21:3-4). I will take away all the pain
you have suffered on this earth. (Rev. 21:3-4). I am your father and I love you
even as I loved my son Jesus. (Jn. 17:23). For in Jesus, my love for you is
revealed. (Jn. 17:27). He is the exact representation of my being. (Heb. 1:3). He
came to demonstrate that I am for you not against you. (Rom 8:31) And to tell
you that I am not counting your sins. Jesus died so that you and I could be
reconciled. (2Cor. 5:18-19). His death was the ultimate expression of my love
for you. (1Jn. 4:10). I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love.
(Rom. 8:31-32). If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me. (1 Jn
2:23). And nothing will ever separate you from my love again. (Rom. 8:38-39). Come
home and I will throw biggest party heaven has ever seen. (Luke 15:7). I have
always been father and will always be father. (Eph.3:14-15). My question is…
will you be my child? (Jn. 1:12-13). I
am waiting for you…. (Lk.15:11-32)
Love,
Your Dad, Almighty God.
As
we have just listened to the letter written by God the Father to us it is clear
that God is our Father, he himself says so through the scriptures. Do we
believe in him? Do we love him enough? He is always waiting for us are we ready
to go to him? God created us with the hope that will respond to him in love and
faith. Do we love Him?
Someone
once said, “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” And
keep in mind that, “there are a thousand ways of pleasing God but not one without
faith.” What faith does to us is it enables us to see the invisible, believe
the incredible, and receive the impossible. Faith works miracles.
We
have just seen that Faith comes from God as a gift to us. The faith that comes
to us from is very vital also in our day to day life. Our societies are founded
on faith, hope and love. We are born as a result of faith and trust our parents
put on each other…faith is what makes us human beings. Faith takes also forms
like trust, hope, generosity, love, sincerity etc., Imagine a society where: people don’t travel
by any public vehicle (because you don’t believe that the bus driver will take
you to the correct destination), don’t go out in open (because someone could
attack you; everyone remaining in hiding in their homes) imagine people in a
society not eating the food cooked by someone else (because who knows it could
be poisoned), Friendship, family life and marriage in such a society would be
unimaginable (because your friend, brother/sister/parents/children could turn
out to be your enemy. And who would think of marriage because your future
husband/wife could be a tyrant and a traitor?)
To believe is to make a jump, to
take a risk, when we believe we put ourselves in the realm of uncertainty. For
instance to be able to say ‘I believe you’ is to be able to say I place myself
at your disposal; I make myself defenseless in front of you. To hope is to say
I don’t know… but I believe something good will happen. Miracles happen when
you believe…. Life becomes meaningful only because we are able to believe in
each other, hope in each other and love one another. Above all faith in God can
work miracles in our lives. It was faith that healed the paralyzed, the deaf,
the blind, the dumb, brought transformation to the sinners,… If you believe in Him
he will work miracles in your lives…
By Nobin Narzary
