As Father’s Day approaches let us consider a Father’s Love. Father God loves us. How does He love us?
- Jeremiah 31:3 – He loves us with an everlasting love.
- Psalm 56:8 – He loves us enough to count our tears (Wow!).
- Isaiah 49:16 – He loves us so much He actually engraved our names in the palm of His hand.
- Matthew 10:30 – He loves us so much that He knows the number of hairs on our head.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 – May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
God so loved us. (John 3:16)That is the theme which rings throughout the Bible. In the natural, we have a special day set aside to celebrate fathers.
Did you know?
- The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington.
- On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday.
- In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C.
- In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day.
- In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last.
- In other countries–especially in Europe and Latin America–fathers are honored on St. Joseph’s Day, a traditional Catholic holiday that falls on March 19.
If you do not know your natural father, or he has not been a good father, do not let this sway your opinion of God. God is Good and always Good. His love is always everlasting; it will not change towards you no matter what you do. God does not hate sinners (He does hate their sin) because He knows the effect sin has on our lives. So even if you are not celebrating Father’s Day on Sunday, because of your natural father; celebrate the Heavenly Father’s Love for you.
Happy Father’s Day to all of those dads out there. Dads remember to celebrate the Father’s Love towards you.
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