You Are the Father

“You Are The Father!” by Ella Shines Goldsmith

Do you recall a TV show starring Maury Povich, where he tells the male guest who is there to determine paternity that “You Are The Father!” After reading aloud the Paternity DNA Results to the audience, they then erupt into shock and  roaring laughter?

This is the scene from a TV show, however some children grow up never knowing who their true biological father is, or never having a personal relationship with him. 

We sometimes feel empathy for these children who have a name and a legacy that sometimes can't be carried down, or they may be adopted into a family with an entirely different last name.  They pick up and use  the adopted surname for the rest of their lives and they then in turn give that surname to their children and so on. 

Lineage was very important to the Israelites back in the book of Numbers 26 Chapter. It describes the children of Israel and the tribes that came out of Egypt and went into the Promised Land. It records the names of each tribe that God told Moses and Aaron to number who would then have a census of over 76,000 members. 

Even Jesus himself was a descendant of the tribe of Judah. It seems during biblical times and even today that ancestry and descendancy was very important.  

Some may argue that if Jesus was a descendant of David, and Judah, how is that possible if his biological father did not exist. He was immaculately conceived by Mary through God himself who was his heavenly father.

The Israelites always wanted to describe people by the tribe from which they originated. Children who are fatherless or their father is unknown, or is not involved in their lives do actually have a father they can all claim.  That father is Jesus Christ through his father, God himself.

God is the father of us all. He is the best father one could ever have because he is kind, forgiving, loving, faithful, trustworthy and he is most importantly our Savior.

We can all rest assured that he will never forsake us, or hold our past or anything we have done against us, if we simply pray and ask him to and believe in our hearts that he died for our sins, and that he  was raised from the dead and he is the the Lord of our lives.

That is the Prayer of Salvation in which, we are given a guarantee, that if we obey his commandments we will live forever with him in Eternity.