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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Our Father....Daddy!



Another tag team from Cat and Leo...

from Cat:

Ephesians 5:1-2

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

We are taught in this scripture to be imitators of God. So however God is, that is the way we should desire to be. God sees the desires of our hearts and will help us become more and more like Him in our behaviors.
Do you think God is sitting in the heavens today angry and crying and depressed? NO. That is not God's nature. God is joyful and He is strong: therefore we should imitate Him.
God is also merciful and slow to anger. If you get angry at people over an injustice, one way to get over it is to imitate God and choose to give them mercy--forgive them even if you don't think they deserve it.
We can become more and more like God because His power and character is in us. Begin to imitate God in your life, doing what you believe He would do in situations, instead of what you feel like doing.



From Leo and thanks to Dr. G. David Boyd who confirmed and wrote about the same thing gotta love the Holy Spirit!

Imitate reminds me that…Just as a child wants to grow up just like their Dad....this speaks to the essence of that relationship in a paradigm that we can totally understand ...Family! Even in its imperfect states ...dysfunctional perhaps, unique definitely, bad, good...and as individual as we are... so is our relationship with Our Father. Jesus, The Son, reminds us in the parable of the Prodigal…that as a Daddy, God will always seeks us to return if we have “left” the relationship and turn His affections toward us and respond to the attention we give Him. Like a child who wanting attention for something they did they may yell out...“Daddy, Look at me! Come See What I did!” And although, yes Daddy has other things he is doing ( so many kids you know ) He will always "drop everything" and respond to us...and the work we do when we put it into His hands, with His perspective, His plans, and His perfect Will. Father and child have something in Common… As Cat said “God is joyful” and as He rejoices over His creation (despite all the many times His human creation has given Him fits) He still loves us always has always will…and so Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to work we go!

There is joy in work. There is joy in production. There are times that we can look at what we do and say. “Daddy, come see what I did!” As human creations we were designed for love and relationships, and community. However, we were also designed for work and creativity. Vocation is the process by which we find a role in the world where we can do work in which the Father is pleased. This work is not limited to our service for the church. This work is not limited to being a pastor, priest, or church worker. The Father is not more pleased by pastor than the Cook, Chef, Server, or Dishwasher. Work is using our gifts and talents…ultimately for His Glory and for His Glory to pour out from us into the place He “placed” us…

There are times when I want to go to my Father and say, “Daddy, come see my work.” I want Him to share in my joy. I want Him to be delighted in me as His child. I want to be united with Him as we seek a goal together. IN the seeking we find the goal…IN the seeking we find affirmation… IN the seeking we find …each other…

Find that connection today with your Father. Ask your Heavenly Father…Ask Daddy… to come and see your work.

Rock and Roll Sistren and Brethren!



Jesus is the Rock…and we Roll!

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