The Love of Our Father

Photo courtesy: Lisa Tarplee Photography

The Bible often uses the everyday experiences and common situations of life to teach us spiritual lessons. For example, God is compared to the agrarian image of a shepherd watching over his sheep. Scripture also uses the illustration of a husband who graciously seeks and redeems his wayward wife to describe how God has rescued and redeemed his people from sin. He is also compared to a father who disciplines, protects, guides, and provides for his children.

Since becoming a parent, this image of God as Father has taken on new and deeper meaning for me.

A Lesson From Parenthood

On vacation in California, I took my two boys to the famous San Diego Zoo. We first gathered around the map to get a lay of the land. Seeing that there was a polar bear exhibit, my kids asked to see that first. So we walked all the way to the back of the zoo to see the polar bears.

We stood before the glass enclosure, surrounded by a crowd of parents and excited children, to look at the bears in their manmade Arctic wonderland. I spotted one coming out of a cave and pointed it out to my youngest standing next to me. We watched him amble about, oblivious to the crowd of watching eyes. I turned to my oldest to see what he thought of the exhibit. After all, he had been so excited to see it. But he wasn’t there.

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