Loved and Protected

Do you know that no matter how big your “daddy” dreams are, God is all of those dreams rolled into one?

Maybe your dad was there, but not connected to you emotionally. Maybe he was absent or you never knew him. Maybe he was loving but didn’t defend you when you needed him to. Perhaps he was abusive in some way.

If that’s the case it’s often hard to view God as someone trustworthy. Sometimes the wounds from our childhood leave us feeling vulnerable and unable to trust God or anyone else not to hurt us.

Well, if this describes you, I have good news for you. Our God is love. Most of us can’t even relate with that word, because it’s tossed about so freely in our day. But our God is amazing! The word “love” actually defines His very character.

First of all it’s important to remember that, (and I’ve mentioned this before), He and Jesus and the Holy Spirit got together before the creation of the world, and God said He wanted to create others to fellowship with, others upon whom He could pour out love.

And in His mind He planned for each one of us to be His dearly beloved children. When Adam and Eve fell, however, sin shattered the fellowship between God and man, forever leaving us with unmet “daddy” needs.

Deep inside each one of us is a longing to be known just as we are and loved completely in spite of our weakness. Well, guess what? God does exactly that. Because He created us, He understands how we think, how we feel, and how our minds work. He understands how we tick, why we come to the conclusions we do, and yet He wants us to get this truth into our spirits.

This truth is so vital: He loved us from the beginning of time, and nothing, but nothing can separate us from that love.

Scripture says so, in Romans 8:35. “Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? V. 38 says: For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, principalities, not things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Those daddy needs can only be met in one way, by spending time basking in the love of the Father, letting Him pour into us the revelation of that love. Just being in His presence has the power to heal, to restore and to transform who we are, so that we rise above the old things that hinder us and are able to love with that same kind of love.

Unbelievers will stop and take notice when we finally get this down. They won’t be able to take their eyes off those who are “Jesus with skin on,” those who reach out in love to a desperate and dying world to meet practical needs.

I challenge you to reach out to God and ask Him to reveal Himself to you. To let you bask in His love, to transform your heart’s daddy needs. To heal you.

Once your daddy needs are met, you’ll be full to overflowing, like a volcano that can’t be stopped, full of the Holy Spirit, all because of Jesus. He’s done it all.

I’m going to pray. Lord, right now I pray for the body of Christ, for my precious brothers and sisters. That You would open the windows of heaven and impart the revelation we so desperately need. Take the scales from our eyes and unstop our ears, so we can see deep into the vision You have for us. So we can live above mere tradition and emptiness, into the fullness of Your glory. Let us be filled to overflowing, hungry for all You have for us, so that we can reach out and reflect the love of Jesus to the desperate souls around us. Change us, Lord, and we will simply give You all the praise, in Jesus’ most wonderful name. Amen.

Because of His great love,

Nancy

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