Who's Your Daddy?????

This Sunday is Father's Day, but what do you do if your father is deceased? If you are a Christian the answer is simple... look to your Heavenly Father. God is the Father of all who accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior.

For those who have an earthly father the Bible has a few things to say to you. Both in the Old Testament in the book of Deuteronomy and in the New Testament in the Epistle to the Ephesians, the Bible promises that if we honor our father and mother that it will go well with us and that we may live long.

Deuteronomy 5:16 "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.”

Ephesians 6:2-3 "Honor your father and mother"—which is the first commandment with a promise— "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."[

I believe this is even more true if we honor our Heavenly Father. Honoring God will make things go well with us as we invite and authorize God's protective hedge to be put around us. Isaiah chapter 5:1-6 talks about what can happen if we dishonor God as it relates to the hedge of protection.

The Song of the Vineyard
1 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.

3 "Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.

4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?

5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
and it will be trampled.

6 I will make it a wasteland,
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain on it."

The Bible is very clear from cover to cover. When we honor and obey God, it will go well with us, God will be pleased and we will receive a blessing. When we dishonor God, we invite God's anger upon us whereby removing the hedge of protection from around us.

I urge you to use the Father's Day to reflect on how well you honor God The Father. We all fall short in this area and need to repent and ask God to forgive us of our dishonor towards Him. This will help restore a close fellowship and "it will go well with us".