Getting what I didn't get as a child.

I have come to believe that God is “re-parenting” me! By that, I mean that He is becoming everything to me that my father was unable to be. He provides for me in perfect ways what my mother was imperfect in providing. This happens as I live in personal relationship with God. Knowing Him as Papa, I bring my hurts, fears and feelings of inadequacy to Him, and He speaks to them with truth- teaching me what I don’t know or helping me walk out what He’s already taught. It is imperative that intimacy and relationship become my supreme ideals- more than victory or maturity. In an economy of grace, victory must be secondary to intimacy. Progress outside of relationship is usually the result of law, and it’s only temporary.

Not only does this happen in the context of relationship with God, but God also provides me with mama’s and papa’s with skin on- people who speak His truth to me. They love me unconditionally (in His strength) and I learn to live loved. They delight in me, and I feel valued. They care for by providing wise counsel and instruction, and I grow like boy learns from his mom and dad.

In these ways, He is "Father to the fatherless" to me.

Thanks, Papa!