On Friday we walked around the neighbourhood to our nearest Shoprite. We had just rounded the corner on the way back into our road when I spotted a piece of litter lying on the pavement. I stooped to pick it up and this is what I saw.
It was a Fathers’ Day Card made by a young child of pre-school or grade 1 age. I have no idea how it came to be lying abandoned on the pavement. Is there a well-loved father (note the hearts on the tie) somewhere in our neighbourhood who didn’t get a card from his child yesterday on Fathers’ Day? Did a teacher perhaps get everybody in the class to make the card according to a pattern and this particular child doesn’t have a father living at home so just threw it away? I will never know.
Would a good father love his child any less if he did not get a card or gift on Fathers’ Day? Of course not! In the same way, there is nothing that we can do or neglect to do that will make our Heavenly Father love us any more or any less. He loves us because we are His children and He is a good Father. That is what a good and perfect Father does. There is no question about it. Otherwise, what kind of Father would He be?
John 3:1a and 2 reads, “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! … Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” (NIV)
As the hymn puts it,
“How deep the Father’s love for us,
How vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure.”
My Prayer
Father, thank You for Your love which I cannot earn and which nothing I do can diminish. Amen.
Coffee in the Rain 