Uncompromised Love

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“Our God is faithful and his love endures forever. What a prime example of fatherhood for you and me.”

Psalm 136:1 (ESV)
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Dave’s teenage son sat whimpering on the sofa. He’d just arrived home well past his curfew, and a little over, what might be deemed, a reasonable limit for a 16-year-old. “I - I’m sorry, dad,” he whined. “Sean, you know we believe you’re too young to consume alcohol!” asserted his father while his mother unleashed her disdain at his behaviour. 

Dave had raised his children as Christian believers. Both his son and daughter had discovered their own faith and accepted Christ as Lord. They had been schooled in the principles of Scripture and encouraged to acknowledge God in all they do. Yet, here was a case when his teenage son had violated the standards his father had set and had compromised his example of faith.

As Dave watched his repentant son rocking on the sofa, he was filled with deep compassion. “Sean,” he said, “you know you have broken my trust. You have violated the standards I’ve set for you for godly living, and that’s sin. But I love you. Though you may prove to be the source of grief to your mother and me, we will never, never stop loving you.” Hugging his sobbing son, Dave added, “Sean, there is nothing you could ever do that would cause us to stop loving you. We loved you before you broke our confidence and we still love you.”

Young Sean is indicative of the state of man. The Bible tells us that we have all sinned and violated the impeccable standards of God’s word. However, we read that while we were still sinners, God demonstrated his love for us in that Jesus died to redeem us from the curse of sin. Like Sean, you and I have broken our Father’s confidence and violated his standards. Yet, on confession of our sin, our Father is faithful and just to forgive us. He loves us and nothing, nothing will ever separate us from this love. Our God is faithful and his love endures forever. What a prime example of fatherhood.

Suan apologised to his mom and dad and repented before God for his wrongdoing and never violated their standards in this way again. It was his father’s uncompromised standards and his uncompromised love that changed the heart of this rebellious young man. Today, Sean is married with his own children, setting in them the same standards that his father set in him.

God-tracking is uncompromised love.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
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Romans 3:10-18, 23-24
Romans 5:8
1 John 1:9
Psalm 100:5 (NIV)

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“Help me to show that same love to my family as you have shown to me.”

“Dear Father, I admit that I have violated your goodness and sinned against you. I’m sorry, Lord. I confess my sin and trust that your unconditional love will forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank you for your generous fatherly love. I know that nothing (not even my own wrongdoing) can separate me from your love. Help me to show that same love to my family as you have shown to me. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS WAKING EVERY MORNING TO CALL HIM DAD

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30 October 2015 

Dear God-tracker

GOD-TRACKING IS WAKING EVERY MORNING TO CALL HIM DAD

“I thought we would stay there longer or be adopted by this family,” said Clair as she shared stories of her childhood one evening around the dinner table. “But we were soon moved on to a new foster home. All my foster carers were wonderful people, but all my brothers and I wanted was a stable, loving home with a mom and dad who would never abandon us like our own parents had.” Clair was the eldest of three siblings. Their biological parents were abusive and negligent resulting in social services had removed them from their birth home, placing them into foster care. Clair was accustomed to looking out for her younger brothers as they moved from home to home but all she ever longed for was for was to be adopted by two caring adults she could call mom and dad. “Finally, when that day came, I remember waking up every morning thinking, mom and dad will always be here every time a wake up. They will never leave me or forsake me.”

Child fostering is a noble and caring occupation but nothing beats the real thing. There is a great need in our society to fully adopt abandoned and abused children. To me, people who choose to adopt other people’s children to love and care for them as their own are heroes. These often abandoned children are welcomed, cared for and shown grace in their time of need.

Christian, when you were once abandoned and lost in this world, Father God chose you in him that you should be holy and blameless before him. In love God predestined you for adoption as his son or daughter through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Father God did not need you. Father God did not inherit you – he chose to adopt you. Through the atoning work of Jesus Christ (God’s only begotten Son) Father God made the way for you to come to him just as you are – warts and all – and, because you have acknowledged Jesus as Lord, he has adopted you regardless. Yes, as your Abba Father he will discipline and guide you, but his discipline is always in love like a true father. Though you may rant and rave at times he will never abandon or forsake you. He is your carer, your provider, your comforter and your counselor. He is anything a good father would be and all his children are co-heirs to his Kingdom. All this because he has adopted you by choice, through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.

God-tracking is waking every morning to call him Dad

God bless

Dudley

It’s all in the Book…Ephesians 1:3-14
Joshua 1:5
Romans 8:14-17

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Verse of the Week
Romans 8:15  
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Quote of the Week
A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.
“God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.” --- Robert Hamill

Don’t Give Up, Look Up!
Look up and Fix Your Eyes on Jesus!
Lord, help me to grow up under your care to be the child you want me to be

Pray
“O Abba Father, thank you so much for sending your only begotten Son, Jesus, to be a sin offering for me to make the way for you to choose me to be your child. Thank you so much for adopting me. Thank you for committing to care for me and provide for me like a loving dad. Thank you that I can wake up every morning to know that you’ll always be there for me. I am so grateful to be called your son/daughter. Thank you for the intimacy of our relationship. Thank you that I can sit on your knee and pour out my needs to you. Thank you for your counsel and your fatherly discipline. Lord, help me to grow up under your care to be the child you want me to be. Amen.”
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