Monday, August 13, 2007

My Child

You may not know me, but I know everything about you...Psalm139:1. I know when you sit down and when you rise up...Psalm 139:2. I am familiar with all your ways...Psalm 139:3. Even the very hairs on your head are numbered...Matthew 10:29-31. For you were made in my image...Genesis 1:27. In me you live and 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 1:4-5. I chose you when I planned creation...Ephesians 1:11-12. You were not a mistake...Psalm 139:15-16. For all your days are written in my book...Psalm 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...Psalm 139:14. I knit you together in your mother's womb...Psalm 139:13. And brought you forth on the day you were born...Psalm 71:6.

I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me...John 8:41-44. I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love...1 John 4:16. And it is my desire to lavish my love on you...1 John 3:1. Simply because you are my child and I am your father...1 John 3:1. I offer you more than your earthly father ever could...Matthew 7:11. For I am the perfect Father...Matthew 5:48. Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand...James 1:17. For I am your provider and I meet all your needs...Matthew 6:31-33. My plan for your future has always been filled with hope...Jeremiah 29:11. Because I love you with an everlasting love...Jeremiah 31:3. My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore...Psalm 139:17-18. And I rejoice over you with singing...Zephaniah 3:17. I will never stop doing good to you...Jeremiah 32:40. For you are my treasured possession...Exodus 19:5. I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul...Jeremiah 32:41. And I want to show you great and marvelous things...Jeremiah 33:3. If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me...Deuteronomy 4:29. Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart...Psalm 37:4. For it is I who gave you those desires...Philippians 2:13. I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine...Ephesians 3:20. For I am your greatest encourager...2 Thessalonians 2:16-17. I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles...2 Corinthians 1:3-4. When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you...Psalm 34:18. As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart...Isaiah 40:11. One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes...Revelation 21:3-4. And I'll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth...Revelation 21:4. I am your Father and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus...John 17:23. For in Jesus my love for you is revealed...John 17:26. He is the exact representation of my being...Hebrews 1:3. And He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you...Romans 8:31. And to tell you that I am not counting your sins...2 Corinthians 5:18-19. Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled...2 Corinthians 5:18-19. His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you...1 John 4:10. I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love...Romans 8:32. If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me...1 John 2:23. And nothing will ever separate you from my love again...Romans 8:38-39.

Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen...Luke 15:7. I have always been Father and will always be Father...Ephesians 3:14-15. My question is...Will you be my Child?...John 1:12-13. I am waiting for you...Luke 15:11-32.

...Love, Your Dad
Almighty God