Identifying With Your Father
Being a father is one of the greatest privileges a man can have. Being the father of four I have found each child with similar needs and yet having unique ways in how they go about getting those needs met.
Jackson is now one year old, and his personality is starting to really come out. He is Mr. Gadget! Don’t leave your cell phone lying around or you might find a charge to China on your next phone bill!
Jackson also has a unique way of identifying with me. One way he does this is eating with me. There are times I come home late from counseling and I will be eating my supper in the kitchen alone. Jackson will come into the kitchen, climb up in my lap and eat with me.
He leans back onto my chest, and I’ll get a bite, and then he will. Back and forth we go until he is full or the food is gone. I have tried putting him in his high chair, but he like to sit with me and eat. It’s a great time of intimacy with him.
He also loves my keys. As I empty my pockets at night he will stand there reaching up to my pocket for my keys. I just thought it was the keys he loved until I made him a set and gave them to him one evening as he was reaching for mine. He immediately threw them on the floor and reached up for mine again.
I tried an experiment. I took the keys he had thrown down and hooked them to my belt loop. It took about two minutes, but he finally looked that those keys and wanted them. When I gave them to him that time he took them, and started pretending to open the bedroom door with them.
It wasn’t just keys he wanted; he wanted something of mine. Somewhere in his little mind was the idea that if it belonged to me it was very special to him. He longs to be with me and he wants the things that I have. He obeys my commands, because more than anything he wants to please me.
I began to think about my personal relationship with God. God is my heavenly father, and much like me with my children, he wants an intimate relationship with me, and He wants one with you too!
I have to admit that I am not following him around and seeking those intimate connections like Jackson is doing with me. And yet, every time I start seeking after him again he is right there, ready to spend time with me, to love on me, to encourage me.
In Jeremiah 29:13 God tells us, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.” The Hebrew word for seek here means, “to search out, to seek, to strive after, or to beg.”
Just like little Jackson begs to get into my lap and share a meal with me, God wants us to seek after him. It is in our father’s arms that we will find the intimacy and peace we so desperately want. So, take the time; go, seek and you will find.
Johnny Walker is a Christian Counselor and the founder of Family Works Counseling. You can reach him at (770) 456-5547
Jackson is now one year old, and his personality is starting to really come out. He is Mr. Gadget! Don’t leave your cell phone lying around or you might find a charge to China on your next phone bill!
Jackson also has a unique way of identifying with me. One way he does this is eating with me. There are times I come home late from counseling and I will be eating my supper in the kitchen alone. Jackson will come into the kitchen, climb up in my lap and eat with me.
He leans back onto my chest, and I’ll get a bite, and then he will. Back and forth we go until he is full or the food is gone. I have tried putting him in his high chair, but he like to sit with me and eat. It’s a great time of intimacy with him.
He also loves my keys. As I empty my pockets at night he will stand there reaching up to my pocket for my keys. I just thought it was the keys he loved until I made him a set and gave them to him one evening as he was reaching for mine. He immediately threw them on the floor and reached up for mine again.
I tried an experiment. I took the keys he had thrown down and hooked them to my belt loop. It took about two minutes, but he finally looked that those keys and wanted them. When I gave them to him that time he took them, and started pretending to open the bedroom door with them.
It wasn’t just keys he wanted; he wanted something of mine. Somewhere in his little mind was the idea that if it belonged to me it was very special to him. He longs to be with me and he wants the things that I have. He obeys my commands, because more than anything he wants to please me.
I began to think about my personal relationship with God. God is my heavenly father, and much like me with my children, he wants an intimate relationship with me, and He wants one with you too!
I have to admit that I am not following him around and seeking those intimate connections like Jackson is doing with me. And yet, every time I start seeking after him again he is right there, ready to spend time with me, to love on me, to encourage me.
In Jeremiah 29:13 God tells us, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.” The Hebrew word for seek here means, “to search out, to seek, to strive after, or to beg.”
Just like little Jackson begs to get into my lap and share a meal with me, God wants us to seek after him. It is in our father’s arms that we will find the intimacy and peace we so desperately want. So, take the time; go, seek and you will find.
Johnny Walker is a Christian Counselor and the founder of Family Works Counseling. You can reach him at (770) 456-5547
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