I wonder if there is any connection between an earthly fathers relationship with his growing son, and how we Growing Sons relate to Our Heavenly Father?
I think I have it. Jesus is our brother friend because Dad, no matter how intimate and affectionate, still has to be Dad. I need a God who is my friend, but I also need a God who is my Father. I need a father who will correct me, who will teach me painful lessons even though, and because He loves me so much. A father who indulges my foolishness does not love his child. So my Father, Who is Love, is incapable of indulging my foolishness. This is not a friend.
My boy and I have talked about this some, but I guess we will be talking about it more. When I am not indulging his foolishness, his conversations are shorter, and sometimes end abruptly.
Father, thank you for putting the vision in my heart of the day when my son will have passed out of my tutelage, and will be able to be my friend. Help him to find the friendship that he needs now, to go along with the fathering I am giving, and the Fathering he is seeking from You.
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