Psalm 89:7
Thank God He understands the child within you. He speaks to your blanket-clutching, thumb-sucking need. In spite of your age, your income your education, or your celebrity. He knows the childhood issues of the maturing heart. This is the ministry that only our father can give.
Have you ever notice that to those who brought you into the world you will never grow up? They will completely disregard your gray hairs, your crow’s feet and your blossoming waistline. No matter how many children call you mom’, to your parents you are still just a child yourself.
They seem to think you have slipped into the closet to try on grown-up clothes and are really just pretending . they must believe that somewhere beneath the lines on your face there is still a child, parading around in her mother’s dress and high-heeled shoes.
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, the first thing He taught them was to acknowledge his Fatherhood and declare our son ship. Sonship is the basis for our relationship with Him as it relates to the privilege of belonging to His divine family. Similarly, one of the first words most babies say is Daddy” Knowing your earthly father helps you understand your own identity as a son or daughter. Greater still is the need to know not only who father is, but feels about me.
The Lord looks beyond the façade of maturity and sees the trembling, uncertain places in your life. He knows your inner most needs. No matter how spiritual mature you try to appear, he is aware that lurking in the shadows is some childish desire you just prayed away last night-the lingering evidence of some tiny temptation that only the father can see within His supposedly” all growing-up little child.
Only He can see the very worst in us, yet think the very best of us. It is unfailing love of the Father whose daughter should have been old enough to receive her inheritance without acting like a child, without wandering off into failure and stumbling into sin.
Even then, your Father throws a party for the prodigal and prepares a fest for the foolish. Comprehend with childlike faith the love of the Father you have in God!
Source: Bishop T.D. Jakes
