I have a Dad - 2013 Father’s Day message (Extract from Discipleship Digest June 2013 Edition) Whether your father is alive or dead, known or unknown, present or away from home (through separation, divorce, at war defending our freedom or incarcerated), responsible or irresponsible; everyone has a father….earthly and heavenly Father. You can not be a father without having a father. You can be a father to your children but you are a child to your father and we are all children to our heavenly Father. Without my father I wouldn’t have the life I live today. My father’s DNA is in me. It’s because of his DNA that I look like him and in some aspect I somehow behave like him. Surprisingly, certain lapses I abhor in him I find myself doing or longing for them. Little wonder, Jesus said, “I am in the Father and the father is in me” (John14:10). My father lives in me. My father is a life giver (seed planter) while my mother is a life bearer (seed carrier). My mom used to tell me, “If God did not want me to be your mom; I wouldn’t have conceived and given birth to you.” In the same vein, if God did not want him to be your dad, he wouldn’t have begotten you. In all, it means you’re not an accident to your parents or nature but a divine blessing and child of destiny. You better stop imagining, I would have been better of, if I was born to another parents. Red Buttons said, “I don’t care how poor a man is, if he has family, he’s rich.” Enjoy a great Father’s day. Elder/Evangelist Godswill Ogbonnaya, WeefreeMinistries.org.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:25:00 +0000