A FATHER’S LOVE
A FATHER’S LOVE is amazing! God is our heavenly FATHER. He has NO GRANDCHILDREN!!! Once again, the Holy Spirit directed me to THIS SONG titled A FATHER’S LOVE. The lyrics touched my heart and what has become a pattern, it brought tears to my eyes. It’s an uptempo song that elaborates on the theme of
1 John 3:1: “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”
It seems the inspiration pattern continues with this song. I understand this ‘inspiration’ pattern because it is how the Holy Spirit speaks to me. I don’t write SONGS, but I write about the songs! So, in essence, God uses me to spread the POWER of the lyrics > TEAMWORK. In other words, when you listen to the song, read the article and share it with others, you become part of the TEAM. We are members of the GOD TEAM to evangelize the world. We don’t have to be preachers or teachers, just have a heart of LOVE for God.
INSPIRATION
It was written by Joel Sczebel, whose dad, Pat, has been writing songs for Sovereign Grace for years. Pat has done a brilliant job passing on his love for the Savior, the church, and music to his kids. I asked Joel about how this song came together and here’s what he wrote:
“The song was essentially born out of a quiet time where I was meditating on the doctrine of adoption. A question seemed to keep coming up and that was ‘how can this be?’. How have rebels come to be children of God? The answer was always ‘through the Father’s love for us’, and at that point, I realized that that was probably a song waiting to be written so I pulled out a guitar and started to jam away at it.”
Our FATHER instills talents in each of his children. It is specific to each child. Some can sing, dance, write, teach and the list goes on and on. It is when the child recognizes his GOD GIVEN TALENT and uses it for good, it becomes a MINISTRY (the work or vocation of a minister of religion). And Minister means to attend to the need of someone.
OUR JOURNEY BEGINS
So, with that said, let’s take our journey through Joel’s LOVE lyrics
- How has the sinner been forgiven.
- How has the rebel been made clean
- Or blinded eyes been made to see
- How have the orphans been adopted
- Who hated Your love and ran from grace
- Despised and reject all Your ways
Eph 1:1, 7 KJV – [1] Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: … [7] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
- How wonderful the Father’s love
- The Father’s love for us
- That He Would send His only Son
- To rescue us
- He saved us, called us blameless
- Guides us now and sustains us
- Oh how wonderful the Father’s Love
1Jo 4:9 KJV – [9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
AN ILLUSTRATION
As an illustration, HOW WONDERFUL THE FATHER’s LOVE is toward us, compare it to how wonderful our love is for our children. GOD wants the best for us; He wants the best for our children. GOD corrects us because HE LOVES US; we correct our children because we LOVE them.
- Your mercy floods our lives with kindness
- Your grace has colored all we see
- And You have promised not to leave
- You freely give Your Spirit to us
- So you can be sure we’re sons of God
- And rest in the hope of what’s to come
Tit 3:4-6 KJV – [4] But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, [5] Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; [6] Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour
- Though suffering may fill our lives
- We’re confident we’re heirs with Christ
- And so we cry “ABBA FATHER”
Rom 8:15 KJV – [15] For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
AND HE DID IT AGAIN
As a result of this statement, The Holy Spirit led me on another journey of song and movie connection to make HIS POINT!
Therefore, A FATHER’S LOVE song led me to the movie COURAGEOUS.
INSPIRATION
In essence., the film is about the meaning and importance of fatherhood, and the story centers around four police officers “all in various stages of fatherhood trying to figure out what it means to be a great dad.” Stephen Kendrick stated that “The film’s desire is for men to leave the theater making the decision that Joshua made when he declared in
Joshua 24:15, ‘As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”.
The word COURAGEOUS means not deterred by danger or pain, brave.
Is Courageous a TRUE STORY? “We are very excited about that and it’s a true story and it’s going to grab your heart.” While the brothers do typically produce original content, they say a friend brought this film to their attention. Alex says he and his brother believe the movie is “timely.” Kendrick Brothers.
To sum up >> SOCIETY NEEDS MORE FATHERS AND FATHER-FIGURES — As loud and clear as the movie’s southern Baptist point-of-view is, the movie’s central message is that society needs more good fathers and father-figures.
VIDEO CLIPS from the MOVIE – COURAGEOUS
In a word – the word INTEGRITY means MORAL. The word INTEGRITY is the focus of this clip. INTEGRITY means the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, moral uprightness.
Therefore, INTEGRITY is a VALUE that is losing its strength in this WORLD we live in. BUT, when we live by INTEREGRITY, we are obeying God.
Pro 10:9 NIV – [9] Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
Therefore, one man’s INTEGRITY to HONOR GOD created a PROMOTION! In light of losing his job for not falsifying a document, he gained the RESPECT from his boss.
TO SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING MOVIE CLIPS
A FATHER’S LOVE speaks of GOD OUR FATHER who LOVED us before we were born. As children of this earth, our life span is limited; we will pass away (most in old age). And as a Christian, we know where our destination is – in heaven with JESUS! HALLELUYAH! AMEN!
In fact, even Christians who lose a child at a young age experience the PAIN of LOSS. Their HEART is broken for a time; BUT it eventually HEALS because they know their child is in arms of JESUS. This movie takes you on a journey through the pain of losing a child, and RESTORATION. GRAB YOUR TISSUES > a BOX!
EARTHLY FATHER’s RESOLUTION
Ultimately, the pain of losing a child brought one FATHER to change his LIFE! And he took other FATHERS with him on his journey.
CALL FOR MEN TO SAY “I WILL”
Therefore, A FATHER’s LOVE is being COURAGEOUS to walk according to the WORD and not the WORLD regarding the GIFT given of raising our children.
Finally, The WORLD needs Christian FATHER’s today > more than ever. Christian FATHERS who stand UP and commit themselves to THE RESOLUTON to FOLLOW GOD’S EXAMPLE.
In fact, FATHERLESS HOMES are on the rise, and the results are evident in the number of children that are lost to the world to raise them.
IN CONCLUSION
Henceforth, ALL CHRISTIAN FATHERS need to ARISE and take a stand for CHRIST. Your children’s’ lives are at stake.
In the final analysis, these quotes are powerful.
- I don’t want to be a good enough father
- I want to be the best for you
- WHERE ARE YOU, MEN OF COURAGE?
A FATHER’S LOVE will change the world, one life at a time.
In fact, www.youwillwantto.com reveals the blessings Jesus paid for > one article at a time.