The Everlasting Father

Good morning, my friend!  Good morning, Father!

“Even to your old age and gray hairs, I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." - Isaiah 46:4 

Lord, being a parent my heart has always been to raise up our children to be responsible, hardworking, self sufficient and generous toward others, and to give more than they take.  And as they transitioned to adulthood, our role changed from their provider to their counselor and advisor.  We needed to teach them to provide for themselves, because our days in this planet are numbered.  We won’t always be here to take care of them.

Most of us were raised that way.  But while we learn to be self sufficient, we also tend to take upon ourselves burdens and stresses that You want to carry for us.  Our skewed perspective makes us hesitant to “burden” You with our struggles.  We feel as responsible adults that we should take care of ourselves.  Thank You for being consistent in Your role with us.  You don’t shift out of the provider role for fear that one day when you are gone we won’t have what we need.  Your days are not numbered.  They are innumerable.  They have no beginning and no end.  You won’t one day be relying on an old age pension and unable to help us financially.  You will never become forgetful about meeting our needs or feeble in Your ability to defend us.  You never grow weary, depleted or lacking in any way.  And You call to us daily to come and receive what we need.

Father, I lift my friend.  You know precisely what they need today.  Help them to come to ABBA Father to be comforted and held.  Today meet them and show Your compassion to demonstrate the aspect of Your beautiful character that they need.  Jehovah-Jireh, be their provider.  Jehovah-Rapha, heal their brokenness and ease their pain.  Be their Wonderful Counselor, Teacher, Deliverer, Shield and Defender.  For their anxious thoughts, be their Prince of Peace, to their darkness, be their Light and in their shaking, be the Rock.  Be their Everlasting Father who never ceases to be, whose love never wavers and is forever unchanging.  “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’” - Matthew 19:14.  Help them to shed their garment of self sufficiency and come before the All Sufficient One as a child.  Lord, thank You for being their providing Father.  Teach them to be Your dependent child.  In Jesus Name ❤️

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