A life with your Father

Imagine for a minute that you are a young adult again, just starting out on your own in the world. You leave your fathers house and begin your life, but not long into this new life things turn bad for you. It is not as easy as you thought to get a good paying job and you never have enough ever for your basic needs. You are losing your house and you can’t feed your self… the realization sets in that you have no future. You know your father is waiting to take you back. He loves you and told you he would be waiting for you, but you rejected his way of life, that is why you left. You know coming to him requires you to accept him and his life, but if you do you know he will always care for you. Eventually you give in to him and his love and accept his way of life. But now that you are home, neither him nor this way of life is really interesting. So you find yourself locked away in your room when you come home, watching TV or something else useless. You stay at work a little longer hoping to establish a promising career, or go out trying to find something you can enjoy or make you happy. You barely talk when you see your father and certainly do not take the time to spend with him.  But still he is always there waiting, inviting you to go places with him to enjoy the day with him, to let him care for you and show you how much He loves you.

Does this sound familiar, maybe not in the literal sense but how is it with your heavenly father? Have you accepted His offer to live with Him in His house? If you did, you no longer have a worry in the world. He has promised to meet your every need. He waits everyday for you to unlock your bedroom door and spend some time with Him… to spend all your time with Him. To pursue Him with as much enthusiasm as you pursue your own dreams. He has such an adventure in mind for you, one that will you will truly enjoy… one that will make you happy and satisfied, because it is what he created you for.

Or do you find yourself staying at work and pouring your self into YOUR career, so you can pursue YOUR dreams. Or spending your free time and resources doing what YOU enjoy, (or what you think you enjoy)!

You have NO idea what is waiting for you until you release everything you are and want to be to Him. He is the only one that can truly make you feel safe, secure and fill you with real joy!

I will leave you with a short story I heard that applies.

A father gave a string of fake pearls to his daughter a few weeks before her birthday. She loved those pearls and wore them everywhere, everyday. On her birthday he came to her with his hand outstretched and the other behind his back, and asked her to give him back the faux pearls. She resisted and begged and pleaded with her father not to take them; she loved them! But eventually she gave in to her father and gave him back her cherished possession. And when she did from behind his back he produced an exquisite necklace made of real pearls to give her in exchange for the fake ones she loved.

How about you? Are you still chasing YOUR dreams, or the one He created you for?