When I was little my dad used to tickle me and my brother until we couldn’t breathe. He would make us sing “Daddy daddy he’s the man he’s the master of the land hooray hooray!” Then because my stubbornness would refuse to sing he would tickle me more until I finally sang.
In the season I’m in right now I am learning how to call God daddy. I have been asking him to show me what it looks like to be his daughter and to depend on him in every circumstance.
When I was little I didn’t see the truth behind that song. All I saw was my dad being a goober and making me sing some song he made up to make me laugh. But as I think of those words I now hear the truth in them. But not in my earthly father my heavenly one. I have an amazing dad here on earth. The best one I could ever ask for. He has provided for me my whole life. He has given me more than I could ever ask for. So sometimes it’s hard to think there is a dad in heaven who can provide more than my sweet dad here on earth can.
I have been asking God what it looks like to have full dependence on him and how to achieve that. When I am at home and I ask my dad for something I am always confident he is going to give me what I’m asking for. And now I’m asking myself why I don’t have that same confidence when I am asking God for things. If my dad on earth is a good dad and wants to give me the things I love and wants to make me happy what makes me think the Heavenly Father who is perfect doesn’t want the same.
My dad has sacrificed a lot in his life to give me a good life. He started raising a family when he was fresh out of high school. He paid for my mom to go to school so that someday she could too have a job to make money to provide for our family. Not only did my dad give me the things I wanted he also told me no. He told me no when he knew it would protect me and looking back I was probably pretty mad when he would tell me no. I still get annoyed when he tells me no, but he tells me no for my own protection. Just like sometimes God the father tells me no for my own protection. Sometimes he tells me wait because his timing is perfect.
We have a perfect father in heaven who loves us so much. He loves me more than my dad on earth does which is so hard to fathom because I have the most amazing dad.
The father in heaven is the master of the land. Everything obeys him. He provides for all things. He provides for the birds in the trees and he provides for the fish in the sea. He rebukes the waves and then wind. What makes me think he isn’t going to take care of me? His beloved daughter. His own child.
This next season of my life I am excited to learn how to call God dad and what it means to have him provide for me just like my dad does now.
