3:89 – Are You Like Your Father?

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Yesterday was 11 years since my father passed away. I think about him often. Some days I realize how much I am like him and it scares me. Other days, it reminds me how much I am like him and I love it. Still there are days when I know I’m not like him and I’m both glad and upset. It’s a very complex relationship as he was a complex person. It means I respect him.and still miss him everyday.

Most of us have father’s like that. They have traits that we love and traits we hate. Times we see ourselves following in their footsteps and it’s great. Other days we follow in their footsteps and it’s terrible. But they are our father. 
Our Father in heaven has different sides. We see the vengeful, strick father in the old testament and the loving, forgiving father through Christ n the the New Testament. No matter the face of our father we see, he loves us and calls us his children. 

When you look at your heavenly father, are you like him?

Scripture

• Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” – Genesis 1:26
• You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. – Matthew 5:48
• Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2

Reflection

God made all of us in his image. We are cut from the same cloth and should be like him. We are his children and should be like him. How we act is our choice. We can give into temptation or do our best to be like our father.

Often, like we do with our earthly parents, we rebel. We try to do it our own way. This leads to a separation between us and Him. Most of us don’t want to end up like our parents when we grow up, but often we end up with similar features.

As we live our #faithjourney, we can do our best to be like our father. And when we fall short, we can be forgiven by the Son.

So I ask you again, are you acting in a way to look like your Father?

Challenge

Search the Bible for one representation of our Father and try to emulate that. Be the child that he made you to be.

Prayer

Father, thank you for creating us like you. You have given us all the tools to be like you and sometimes, often times, we fail. Help us to be like you and when we look in the mirror, let us see your reflection. Forgive us and help us to always want to look like you. In your name, Amen.