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Last Saturday I enjoyed a delicious lunch and good company when I visited the home of a Yazidi family here in Lincoln. They have three small children, so when I visit, I sit at the table to eat with the husband and after we finish, we sit with the kids while the wife eats. It’s a kind of divide and conquer strategy with the kids. 🙂

While I was eating with the husband, his six year old son was playing a video game and yelled out, “Dad help me kill the monster. I can’t do it.”

So after we finished our lunch, we went to the living room and my friend helped his son with the video game and killed the monster in the video game, so his son could keep playing.

I thought about that moment of watching a father help his son and then I thought about how that moment reminds me of what God wants to and will do for us. Jesus constantly referred to God as, “Your father in heaven.” When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, it started with, “Our Father in heaven.”

So when we come across those monsters in life whatever they are, do we call out to our heavenly father to ask him to come help us like my friend’s six year old boy? Why do I seem to try in my own power until such time as like my friend’s son, I realize I can’t and then I ask for help?

Another thought came to my mind as I watched my friend patiently help his son. I noted that my friend is a good father, but still we all have sin. Jesus talked about how even though we have sin we give our children bread and not a stone when they tell us we are hungry and how much more God will give good things to his children when we seek him.

For those who have strained relationships with their earthly fathers or have been victims of abuse at the hands of a father, it can be difficult to envision God as a loving heavenly father, but that is exactly who he is. For some, counseling may be needed to work through those issues perhaps with a counselor or a pastor. For me the biggest help was time in prayer and reading the bible as well as other books. I was so ready to accept that God was different than my father.

For my friend’s son, asking his father for help is his right as his father’s child. It is a birthright so to speak. God will grant anyone who comes to his son Jesus the birthright of being a child of God. John 1:12- “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” 

So next time a ‘monster’ comes into our lives, let’s try to remember we have a father in heaven that will come help us.