Your Stress and God's Fatherhood
For believers in Jesus, God's discipline is NOT punishment. All of God's punishment for humanity's sin was absorbed by Jesus' suffering and death on the cross, and Christ's sacrifice satisfied God's perfect justice — and by believing in Jesus, despite our sin we will stand before the Lord as spotless and white as snow. There is no more punishment for Christians.
embracing healing through divine adoption
Why look back when Jesus gives us so much good instead? The fact is, all of us have wounds in our lives of one kind or another that must be addressed. Maybe our parents — also imperfect and wounded themselves — behaved in hurtful ways toward us. Maybe our own rebelliousness got us into trouble. Maybe we got married to someone who turned out to be "not as advertised." The list is long, and wounds are sadly plentiful.
But God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds (Psalm 147) — a biblical promise we should memorize!
Universal Fatherhood
"Is God the Father of everyone?"
That's one of the many questions out there rubbing up against the biblical truth that trusting in Jesus as savior and Lord is the only way to eternal salvation with God in heaven.
Many indeed wonder — for starters — that if God is the Father of everyone, how could that Father bar his children from entering heaven, even if those children never bothered to acknowledge or get to know that Father while on earth?
A Paradigm Shift - Embracing God as Father
Many people, even Christians, have a tough time comprehending the love our heavenly father has for us because of — putting it mildly — less-than-perfect earthly fathers. It's an understandable problem and barrier, especially if we've grown up with abusive, violent, or distant dads.
