4/4/10
I really struggled with the death of my dad. I was eight years old when he died of cancer. I thought about him a lot. I would wonder who would teach me lessons about life or teach me how men are to treat me? I wonder who would protect me? But, I am glad to look to God as my Father. God has been my protector, provider, my friend, my strength, my resting place.
Father...
Provider
Matt. 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in
barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable
than they?
Comforter
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our
merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us
in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we
will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.
Loves
Us
John 16:27
for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe
that I came from God.[a]
1 John 3:1
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children,
and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t
recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
Compassionate
Psalm 103:13
The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to
those who fear him.
Corrects
Us
Hebrew 12:6
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom
he receives.”
Guides
Us
Proverbs 3:6
Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
