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Introducing Your
Heavenly Father
Taken from
fathersloveletters.com Website
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What is Father's Love Letter?
Father's
Love Letter is a compilation of bible verses from both the Old & New
Testaments that are presented in the form of a love letter from God to
us. |
Written For You
This letter was written for you, and its words are penned from a God who
loves you and desires to be the father that you have been looking for
all your life. Wherever you are in your journey, we hope that this love
letter will encourage you, comfort you and guide you on your way home.
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Introducing Your Heavenly Father
God is not distant
and angry as many of the renaissance paintings portrayed Him, but is
loving, kind and gentle. In fact, He is the nicest person in the
universe. |
God Has Been
Misrepresented To Us
Over the centuries there have been many misconceptions about God and His
true nature. He has been misrepresented to us by legalistic religious
leaders and angry earthly fathers who have, by their lifestyles,
distorted His true image.
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God Is Love
The bible says that God is love. Pure love. And He wants to lavish His
love on you. He is not looking for more servants to add to His Kingdom
but more children to fill His house. He wants to be in relationship with
you, not because you deserve it but just because He made you, and is
"head over heels" in love with you. It is our hope that after visiting
this website, you might have a better understanding of His heart for
you. |
God's Original Intent
It was God's original
plan in the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve would live all the days of
their lives in the presence of a loving Father, and would in turn
reflect His love to their children. It was the Father's hope that each
generation would grow up in the light of His love never knowing a day of
rejection or pain.
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Love Cannot Be
Forced
However, love is not something that can be forced so God gave Adam and
Eve the privilege of a free will. They had the freedom to trust God and
stay in the garden or disobey Him and leave. In Genesis we read that the
latter happened and as a result of their choice to become independent,
they became separated from God. |
Broken Relationships
As a result of Adam and Eve's actions, a new deadly disease called 'sin'
infected humanity. The world that God originally intended to be perfect
and full of love,
was now wrought with pain and suffering because of the consequences of
sin. Hurting people tend to hurt others, which is a legacy that has been
passed on from generation to generation. |
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Understanding Our
Need For Love
Since God
created us for love, we are born with a great expectation to be loved
and accepted. It is a scientific fact that babies who are not shown
loving touch in the first few months of their lives can be physically
and emotionally affected for the rest of their lives.
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We
All Have A Love Deficit
Unfortunately our parents could only express the love that they had
first received from their parents. As a result, many of us have grown up
with love deficits in our hearts. While we may know we are missing
something, we might not be able to identify the emptiness that resides
in the deepest part of our being. |
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Filling The Void
All we know is that we need to try and fill the emptiness somehow. Some
try to fill this void in relationships, others in performance and
success. And others seek to dull the emptiness with addictions. No
matter what we do, if we do not encounter the real thing, we will always
be left with a feeling of emptiness and unfulfillment. |
Having A Personal Relationship With God
There is
only one place where we will find the true love and acceptance that we
are looking for and that is in a personal relationship with God. We were
all born with a God sized "hole in our soul" that can only be filled by
God Himself. Many of us have tried to fill this void with other things,
but it is like putting a square peg in a round hole...it just doesn't
fit.
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The Good News
The good news is that God wants to be in a relationship with us more
than we want to be in a relationship with Him. The One who knew us
before we were conceived (Jeremiah 1:4) and knit us together in our
mother's womb (Psalm 139:13) wants to be our Father. While we are His
offspring by creation, His desire is that we might become His children
through redemption. |
Finding Our Way Home
While we
were still estranged, God the Father made a way for us to come home by
sending His only son, Jesus Christ, to earth two thousand years ago to
take care of the "sin" issue that had kept us separated. In obedience to
His Father, Jesus bore upon Himself the weight of our sin, nailing it to
the cross so that we could be born into His wonderful family.
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Jesus Is The Way To The Father
His resurrection from the dead signalled the victory that would allow
many sons and daughters to come into glory! In John 14:6, Jesus says, "I
am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father except
through me". Our access to the Father is through Jesus alone. His
sacrifice was the one and only price that could be paid for our
redemption and restoration into the family of His wonderful Father. If
we receive God's gift of His Son Jesus Christ, we receive the right to
become children of God! |
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