Since my early days in church I’ve often been told I had to relate to God as a father. I just couldn’t…
See, I never knew my father, he caused my mother horrible pain and left our family to fend for itself excelling us into a deeper poverty and depression.
Amongst all of this constant struggle just for daily food and hoping for shelter in the coming months as bills piled up, in church I was told to pray to God, my ABBA father.
That word ABBA was for foreign to me. Not in the sense of the definition, I just didn’t know what it looked like in human form. In my mind I didn’t see much of a difference between God and a deadbeat father.
Over the past decade my thoughts have changed. Now I want to share with you some insight about real fathers. I hate to disappoint you but this blog won’t be specifically tied to God being our father, I think he has a message for you today.
One of the Hebraic words for Father is אמן and is pronounced ‘aman.
The definition beautifully brings to mind the prefect expression of what a father is and can be.
The definition for the Hebrew word for father is one who offers his right hand.
This word father here is more than a person who works, provides and loves. This word father is about a person who seeks to lead, guide and walk with you.
I’ve never had a father. But I have been very blessed in my childhood to have many men and women come into my life to lead me and take my hand while on this spiritual journey and this life journey.
My hope on this day when we celebrate fathers we include those mentors, spiritual fathers and all who have had a hand in leading someone.
I am convinced that God loves puns when reading the Bible, and this Hebrew word used for father is ‘aman…or as our English eyes might see it, A Man. A man is someone who leads. A man is an example. A man is a guide.
Happy Fathers day to all the fathers
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