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Day 4: He's a Good Good Father

Those of us who have children try to be the very best parents we can to them. We do our best to provide their needs and their desires as well. I personally could not imagine my child asking me for bread and me giving her a stone or her asking me for fish and me giving her a snake. I was born into sin, and I am imperfect; yet I still couldn’t imagine me treating my child that way.

Now we serve a perfect God. There is no sin in Him whatsoever. He is perfect, and He is a loving Father. Therefore, he would not dare treat us worse than we would treat our own children. God loves us, so we don’t have to be afraid to ask Him for what we desire. He loves to pour out His blessings on us. However, just like we as earthly parents wouldn’t purposely give our children anything that would harm them or isn’t good for them, the same is true for God. A knife may look harmless to my one-year-old, but she can hurt herself and/or others. She loves bananas; and although bananas in themselves are not bad, consuming too many at once can be harmful down the line. However, she doesn’t know that. All she knows is that she likes bananas, and she wants to eat them all the time. The same is true with our relationship with God. He will keep us away from those things that are blatantly bad for everyone. However, He will also keep things from us that are not bad in themselves but can cause harmful effects down the line.

Sis, God is not trying to keep love, marriage, and a family from you. Those things in themselves are not bad. However, with the wrong person and at the wrong time, those things can cause harm down the line. Know that God is a better parent than any parent you had experience with here on earth, and He does not desire to keep good things from us. Accept God’s will and His guidance. Everything will happen in His perfect timing.

Declare: God is my amazing Father. He’s better to me than anyone on this earth has ever been. I accept the direction that He has given me in life. I know that He won’t hold any good thing from me. God will give me the desires of my heart in His perfect timing.