Christ – A Father’s Promise

Mathew 6:26 "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?”

Calling to God as a Father is a teaching exclusive to Christianity. Even Israel or Judaism did not use that term when calling towards heaven.

To understand properly we need to see that God created man in his own form but sin created a massive separation and this separation is further widened by our individual deeds. This tendency is not individuality but inherited. Being children of Adam, we all are motivated towards further sinning and drifting away from the presence of God. Sin has brought every curse that makes our life difficult and brings a tendency to have fake and temporary happiness and satisfaction. When this satisfaction is lost like a hangover after alcohol, we further regret and try to punish ours
elves. The seriousness of this curse is that our children go even further into our deeds. They do not listen to what we instruct them, they just do a little more than what we do.

We highly regard Israel even today as they are very intelligent and blessed more than many other nations. Israel was the first born son who was given a salvation from this path of doom because of one man’s obedience and faith. Abraham was not perfect but had a heart to honor God. So, all his descendants were proudly identified as children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This generation were called as sons of God in a few instances for behavioral changes (Deuteronomy 14:1, Malachi 2:10) but were not asked to address God as the Father but as “Elohim” or “God”.

God’s had always accepted a single person, family or group like Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. All of Jacob’s descendants were given the status of being God’s own people. But this Israel also had rejected God and was punished severely. It was so severe that a whole nation was held as captives in another nation. The severity of sin is so large that God had abandoned every single soul in Israel and the world and was totally silent for centuries.

Choosing a generation who were perfect from birth miserably failed because of our blood-relationship with sin. We needed a Redeemer and not just another earthly father. God had earlier promised a Child, a person to hold the whole government on His shoulders. This responsibility to sacrifice and save could not be filled by any earthly person and so God Himself came down to earth as Jesus Christ. Jesus had the first authority to call the Almighty God as “My Father” (Luke 2:49). But Jesus our perfect redeemer always had asked us to call His Father as “our Father”. Jesus really wants to lift us up together with Him as His fellow heirs to all the riches of heaven.  This is the perfect will of our Father that we would love Him becoming His own Children and so, came to the earth as the begotten son who lay down His life to earn us.

Any person drunkard, addict, adulterer, murderer or anybody can just trust in Jesus and receive Him as our Savior to be saved. Jesus is our only hope and the wonderful, happiest path for our relationship with God. This relationship will clean us away from every sin and curse and help us live a completely successful life so that our children can learn from us. The Loving Father has given us a Baby which would first conquer the world and then through Him become worthy to call Him as “Abba Father”.

Amen.