Got a father around to love?

In this fatherless world where many sons and daughters have grown into adults and ditched their fathers, and many fathers have not or half grown up, but have quickly ditched their kids, their wives, all their relatives and even most of their friends.. what’s really so in this regard, and excellent to hear? 

Perhaps your dad deserved to be ditched cuz he's a perv who abused you? God has never been like that -- He will never be like that. 

Choose not ever to become like that. Be holy as your heavenly father is Holy. Be whole!   

“The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.”  Psalms 103:13

What does it mean that God is father to the fatherless?

What does it mean to be a godly father?

What is the meaning of “Everlasting Father” in Isaiah 9:6?

Do Muslims call Allah “Father”? How can we come to God as Father?

What does it mean that God is our Abba Father?

If Jesus was God, why did He say, “The Father is greater than I” in John 14:28?

Why did Jesus say “Father, forgive them” on the cross?

Who was Moses’ father?

What did Jesus mean when He instructed us to hate our father and mother (Luke 14:26)? Our love for God the Father should be so great that our love for mom and dad should be like hate in comparison. 

Why should our prayers be addressed to “our Father which art in heaven” (Matthew 6:9)?

What is the meaning of the Parable of the Prodigal Son?

What does it mean that Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44)?

What did Jesus mean when He said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30)?

To whom are we to pray to, the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit?

Your Father is there for you and He deeply loves you! Won't ditch!

Ephesians 6:4: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."

Proverbs 1:8: "Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching."

2 Corinthians 6:18: "And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

Psalm 103:13: "As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him."

Proverbs 22:6: "Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it."

2 Samuel 7:14-15: "I will be a father to him, and he'll be a son to me. When he does wrong, I'll discipline him in the usual ways, the pitfalls and obstacles of this mortal life. But I'll never remove my gracious love from him."

Proverbs 23:22: "Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old."

Proverbs 23:24: "The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him."

Psalm 32:7-8: "You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance."

Proverbs 4:11-12: "I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble."

Luke 15:20: "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him."

Deuteronomy 1:31: "There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."

Malachi 4:6: "He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers."

Hebrews 12:7: "Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?"

Your heavenly Father and His Son Jesus have known you and I from the get go.  And God knows the very worst to what we are actually capable of -- our potential.  Sure and that won't be reached outside of an intimate relationship with Him -- simple as that.  He knows what we were, where we're from, what we currently are, where we're headed, and what we will be cuz he lives in the now and in the future.. outside of time.  He knows all your gifts, motives, longings and abilities. He did not love us because we are so loveable, but because He is Love.  Yep, God is and always has been Love -- He's the most unselfish, kind and loving person that has ever lived. He loves you and will forgive all of your sins -- He'll even forget your wrong-doin's.  Did that for me. Dare ya if I may -- turn, trust, chat with, invite in. I love Him because He first loved me. He is the initiator of love, and you and me what are we?  We're the responders, so respond Buckeroo. Here and now is good.

"For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God."  Hebrews 13:14-16

Forgive your earthly father (that doesn't say he was right or release him from the consequences especially if he harmed people or committed crimes) and then worship your heavenly Father who has never done you wrong. 

Your first priority ministry and mine? Biblical wholehearted worship of the Father through the Son Jesus.. including prayer and praise to your God. It is so important. None (no ministry at any time) zero, null.. are or were or will be more important among those you like to or dislike to do.