The other day I was talking with a man named Mr. Martin who has 4 beautiful daughters. I noticed how him and his wife were so supportive of their children and so I wanted to compliment him and his wife. So I did. He then said “You know a dad’s job is pretty easy, you tell your kids how beautiful they are and how proud you are of them.” This broke my heart to hear it put so simply. To think that I didn’t have that simplistic theory with my father growing up. Growing up I had a father but things were just different. Seeing different families and how they act with their kids was just different from what my dad was giving to me. But what I did have was God. He was my father. He has always been my father and it took me so long to realize that. Yeah sometimes earthly parents just suck or they pass away. The Lord is always your father ALWAYS. He can mend the broken hearts. Take away the pain of the past. He feels our pain and wants us to be fulfilled in him.
Thinking about this more with the ministries we are working with. My heart broke even more to think about the orphans. They are all so passionate about Christ and want more of him and they all want that “normal family”. Having God as a father is better than any earthly father they could’ve ever had or had in the past. Some of them have never had the capability to remember their families. Most of them grow up in the children’s home not knowing what a father figure looks like.
But there’s a girl who will be named Sarah. No, that’s not her name and yes, there’s no one at the home named Sarah already. So Sarah grew up without her real dad ever being present. He left her at a very young age to where she couldn’t even remember what her father looks like. After a while her mother got remarried. She said. “He never hurt me, he was a good man”(talking about her stepfather). I was so happy to hear that until she told me that they made her move out of her home when she was around 14/15 and she moved in with her uncle and grandma. Her uncle only being two years older started abusing Sarah and treating her as a object forcing her to do everything for him as if he was incapable to do anything for himself. This went on for almost a year when a social worker found her and brought her to the children’s home. She had come to Christ just before going to the Children’s home. Her friends kept saying Sarah come to church you will love it just please come. So she eventually went and when she did she says “I found out that God loves us no matter what and that’s all I wanted. I wanted to be loved by someone forever and be taken care of.” She found God as her father and she continues to see him as her father figure but prays everyday that her father will come back. But if he never comes back and loves her like she wants she knows God is going to provide for her.
This is just another example of how God is able to come into our lives and pick us up right where we need him. I am so blessed to have God as my father and hope that if you haven’t accepted him as your father you start to consider it. It’s a life change and an amazing one at that.
