Father-Child Relationship

Last evening at the caregroup meetings in New Creation Church, the discussion topic was on the Father-child relationships and members were encouraged to describe what they think are trademarks of a good earthly father and to share happy memories of time they had with their own fathers.

Various thoughts were shared and one connecting thread through all was this point of the earthly father being available for the child to run to and confide/ share emotions with and to receive encouragement and for these to happen, there must be time spent with each other. Giving of gifts can be delegated and some would say may even be through electronic means - transfer of money through the internet; now these are useful and greatly appreciated but most people would agree that nothing beats the Father-Child bonding time spent.

So the point here is - if that is what we view as the hallmark of a healthy father-child relationship, how much more it is true of our Heavenly Father-Earthly child relationship. And the amazing thing about our Daddy (or Papa) in Heaven is that He wants the same relationship with us and He had already made the first move by sending His own Son Jesus Christ to die for us and thus we can righteously become His sons and daughters through faith in what Jesus had done and by receiving Him into our lives. And to add to that, He even gave us His Holy Spirit to dwell within us so that we can commune with Him any time.

The Apostle Paul admonished the Corinthian church in 1Corinthians3:16-17, "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple" (NIV). So indeed, the Holy Spirit had taken up residence in your spirit the moment you received Jesus as Lord and Saviour of your life and communion will start immediately.

So know for a sure fact that we have a Daddy or Papa in Heaven and He loves us very much!