Your Earthly Father

Last week I was blessed to be able to join a group of women that had just started the NBJ study. I was talking to two women and one said that she had “cheated” and looked ahead at the next chapter. We laughed and told her it wasn’t cheating. She admitted with a tear in her eye that the “Father Heart of God” chapter was going to be very difficult for her. The other woman I was standing with agreed. One of the women’s dad had left the family and the other woman said her dad passed away when she was four years old. Both women still seemed pained by the loss of their earthly fathers for good reason. I encouraged both of them to really press into the chapter, spend a good amount of time reading the scripture and allowing God’s Father heart minister to them in a powerful way. It would be easy for these women to skim this chapter and not deal with the pain of their losses, but God doesn’t want us to avoid any pain in life. He desires for us to seek him through our pain and know that he will comfort us and be with us through all of it. He’s faithful to the end!