How much more our Father in heaven

Believers, can you imagine how you would feel if, after preparing a feast for your own beloved children, you found them scrounging in your garbage for something to eat because they did something you didn't like and felt that they did not deserve or merit the meal you prepared for them? Do you provide your kids with their needs and more on the basis of whether they did things to deserve it or not? Would you really teach your beloved child a lesson by letting a wicked lesson teacher have a go at him? Would you really let your own child remain sick because he sass-mouthed or disobeyed you?

See Christ's words in Matthew 7- "9 Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!"

This to people who were not yet saved. How much more our heavenly Father who gave His own Son to die for our sins because He loved us so. How much more you and I who are in Christ to whom God is Abba Father!

Our children learn from what we do and what we are. They look to us (behold us) for their needs and behaviour. Their lives are a mirror reflection of ours. It is our responsibility to train them in the way that they should go so. In Christ, God is our Daddy! Our Trainer. How much more our Father in heaven whose Spirit dwells in us to transform us to the image of His glory, as it is written in 2 Corinthians 3:18 -

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

In Christ, God is our Abba Father. Our Trainer. This is Grace- undeserved, unmerited favour. We get to be like Christ by grace not by works of the Law.

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right.

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