Well, when I started writing I didn’t realize it was going to turn into a Father’s Day post. No…Mo is not going to be a father, but my post turned into me writing about my relationship with my Heavenly Father. A couple weeks ago I spent some time reflecting on what I wrote on my previous blog and what the Lord taught me. I’ve been realizing how most of the time when I write about my Bible Studies and what I’m learning they go along with what I’m struggling through at that time and I don’t even know it. I’m glad to know I have a Heavenly Father who knows the deep struggles I go through and cares enough for me to encourage me, teach me, and speak to me about those struggles even prior to the time they hit. There are so many times when I feel like He doesn’t care or isn’t speaking, but that is probably because I’m not listening very well…I’m definitely a child with selective hearing, picking and choosing what I WANT to hear from my Father. I don’t want to hear that I have to wait and I don’t want to hear that I can’t have something. I don’t want to hear that I have to learn before I can have either. Don’t tell me you don’t think this way! :) I’m learning that it’s good for me to wait, it’s good for me to not have what I want when I want it, and it’s good for me to learn before I can have what I want…and most of the time I’m kicking & screaming while learning this! I’m glad that my Father doesn’t spoil me and give me everything I ask for when I ask for it, no matter how much I would love it, because I know it wouldn’t be good for me. What would it do to me? It would probably turn me into a prideful, spoiled little brat!! I mean I already kick & scream when I can’t have things sometimes, so how would I act if I got everything all the time? Just being honest. I know myself and I know that if my Heavenly Father gave me everything I asked for, when I asked for it, and the way I asked for it then I would expect to get what I wanted every time and I would never learn patience, I would never learn to listen, and I would never learn about my Heavenly Father and learn to be like Him.
The other day I watched the movie “Evan Almighty” and of course I loved it. There were a few things in there that just stuck to me so much, but more than anything was when God (Morgan Freeman) tells Evan (Steve Carell): “Let's just say that whatever I do, I do because I love you.” Ever since I heard that the Lord has been reminding me of the truth in that. Among all the “why’s” in my life or the waiting or the learning or struggles, God does things because He loves me. What if in every situation we faced on a daily basis or even in those areas of our lives where we are waiting and learning or struggling, we heard God say – “Let’s just say that whatever I do, I do because I love you”. Tell yourself that in any situation you are facing right now, whatever God does or allows in your life, He does and allows because He loves you! Is this not what a true Father does? If you are a child of my Heavenly Father, and you are struggling or you don’t understand what the Lord is doing, or you are in a period of your life where you need to learn before you can have – know that your Heavenly Father only does things out of love. Sure does turn those situations around huh? :) Whatever God does, He does because He loves you! Thank you Lord for being a truly amazing Father!
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