The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
The Father and the Son
Dustin works for a company whose owner has been servicing our drains for more than thirty years. The last time I saw him, he suffered great pain due to a back injury that made his difficult job particularly challenging. Since that time, he underwent successful surgery that has made him “feel like a new man.” You can literally see it in his face and demeanor. I mentioned this to him, which led to at least five minutes of Dustin thanking God and the surgeons who fixed his back.
I mostly remember this. “I can’t even explain what it means to pick up my little boy and look him in the face!” Dustin said the words with that something in the voice that only sounds from a loving parent. Being a father myself, albeit of adult children, Dustin’s statement resonated deep in my heart. I have been there and done that on countless occasions with my children (and grandchildren), While they have grown beyond my capacity to do so now physically, I do it all the time in heart (so many memories flood my soul even as I type the words). Of far greater import, Somebody else does the same in infinitely greater measure...
“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).
From everlasting, God the Father has loved God the Son, who has loved Him in holy response. “Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world… I love the Father” (John 17:24; 14:31). We can know no more important truth and reality, even as Scripture declares, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name” (John 10:31). We enter into saving relationship with God by believing in the eternal relationship of the Father and Son, as revealed unto and within us by the Holy Spirit. “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given unto us” (Romans 5:5). Little wonder that earthly parents find so much joy in our children, as with fathers like Dustin who can joyfully pick them up and look into their faces, or those who forever lift up sons and daughters in our hearts.
“Jesus is the Son of God” (I John 4:15). Forever will not suffice in full discovery of this “from everlasting to everlasting” wonder. A relationship, which includes the Holy Spirit, has forever been and will forever be. Our salvation begins by faith in this glorious reality: “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God” (Acts 8:37). It continues thereby: “Who is He that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God” (I John 5:5). I will remember this when Dustin’s words come to heart and mind - “to pick up my little boy and look him in the face!” Sublime, in the words of an earthly father. Even more, let us ponder the wonder of a Heavenly Father, whose love for His Son comprises the very heart of reality from everlasting to everlasting.
“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hands.”
(John 3:35)
Weekly Memory Verse
Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.”
(Romans 8:9)
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