“…‘Lord, show us the Father...’”
John 14:8
When I was a
little girl, my dad tried, to teach me how to whistle, with no success. I would
go around the house, making annoying sounds. It still didn’t change the fact I
was not actually whistling.
You know the
famous Lauran Bacall line to Humphrey Bogart in the film, “To Have and Have
Not…”
“You know
how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together… and blow.”
No. It was
not like that for me. “Wo-o-o-o-o-o….wo-o-o-o…” was more like it. And so, my
dad called me Whistle Berry.
This memory,
years later, has illustrated the unsuccessful fathering I received. It’s not
about condemning anyone; it was what it was.
Nevertheless,
the whistling lessons have shown me how, inevitably, when our human fathers
fail us, God will pick up the slack; teach and love us as the ultimate Father.
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go:
I will guide you with My eye.”
Psalm 32:8
“The LORD hath appeared of old unto
me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
Jeremiah 31:3
It’s not
about a perfect “happily ever after.” It’s not that simple. Our lives are
complicated and imperfect. Some of us have come from the traumatic pain of
abuse, divorce and abandonment. But, if we see the heart of God as Father, we
see just how passionately He pursues us and will work with, through and in spite of our wreckage.
Perhaps you
didn’t get the genuine fathering. Perhaps, the lessons you received were the
pale whistle berry noise instead of the authentic loving whistling experience.
It’s not hopeless; you are not hopeless.
“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.”
Romans 8:15
Right now,
there is a loving perfect Father. He wants you to know how much He loves you.
He wants to teach you how to whistle.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.”
James 1:17
And that’s
just the starting point!
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9
Copyright © 2015 by
Sheryle Cruse
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