What God wants for His daughters
This post kinda partners with my post on http://christianmen.wordpress.com called Fighting for our own heart.
Today I was standing in line at one of my fav places in the world – my local hardware store… a home depot type store.
I was walking towards the queue to stand in line. A father was interacting with his young daughter. She was a delight, just a bundle of happiness. The fruit of a family is the nature and style of their kids, I think.
I could see that her life is what I want for my children. Innocence. Security. Simplicity. A positive identity. ALL OF THIS comes from her parents (and extended family).
I thought… someday she will marry and her natural father hopes for love for her in her marriage. A clean and good love, not mixed in with yucky Hollywood stuff.
I intensely felt the deep desire that a parent has for their children. A mix of *hope* for their future happiness and *fear* of young adults lowering their standards and losing their innocence.
God was showing me something and I struggled to comprehend the depth of it. I heard Him say ‘you’ll understand when you have your own children’.
In that moment I knew God also wants pure, clean love for His own cherished daughter – in my future marriage. This touched me. He’s telling me what He wants for His daughter in my future marriage. It’s up to me to accept it and do it.
It’s a beatiful thing that God feels so ‘Fatherly’ towards His daughters.
He occassionally lets me know the expectations that He has for me, as the man & husband, and He tells me the boundaries that I have to honor and respect and protect with her.
He’s so clearly her Dad and He loves her. It boggles my mind. Two Dads.
Truly… God can be a Father to the fatherless. To me! To you too. It’s not a father in a natural human sense, it’s utterly different and it can be very confusing… but it’s a wonderful priiveledge for us.
I know that I come from a dysfunctional past, but with a Father in Heaven who is willing to explain life to me – as my own father could have – I feel encouragement that I can do this thing called life. I can prosper in it.
As I stood at the check-out counter I felt this massive heat all over my body. I was literally sweating. I asked the woman serving me if it was hot in here. She said she felt cold and she was standing near the computer to get some warmth. I knew that it was God’s warmth (God’s warm love) and He was healing me of something, perhaps related to my past experiences… so I can go forward and be the man and husband He wants me to be.
(As I write this I can feel that warmth again.)
