Daddy is Always There

So as I read up on the restorations in the Old Testament, I realize how hard life was for them spiritually. When we let our fleshly ways get in between God and us we fail and cannot completely live in full happiness. God will only fill us when we are willing to become spiritual beings. When the Jews where building the Temple and the gentiles where teasing and bewildering them, they just wanted to give up and give into what they were teasing them about. So at one point they did and then God was upset because they went onto their lives leaving God out and not doing what was part of their promise. God needed them to fulfill the promise he had given Abraham on down the line to David. He used people to fulfill his promise and so they can be a part of it and understand it. God wants to include us into everything he does. When we are not completely willing and able to give up our fleshly understanding and ways and just trust Him. We will never become spiritual beings that will sit at His throne and feel true love and happiness. To be a child again and let all worries go and just trust our father would be perfect. But just as children have to learn and grow so do we.
God wants us to have everything and have a relationship with us. But it is all up to us whether we want to or not have one with Him. He is teaching us just as we have to teach our children. We are children who do not understand. We do not always want to do what our daddy tells us because it seems pointless and boring. But he will reveal the answer to us in time. Our first step is to just trust him and listen.

All People do this and act this way.

A child goes to grab a bumble bee
Daddy says NO!

Child asks “why?”

Daddy says “it will hurt you”

Child walks away not fully understand how something so small could hurt them. Child notice the bumble bee again and looks around and no daddy. But remembers daddy said NO. So the child figures well I will be careful. Child “ouch!!!” Then the child takes off crying to daddy.

Daddy says “ I told you not to touch that bumble bee”

Child thinks “how did he know?”

Daddy takes child into the house and tells him “he has to take the stinger out and it will burn.” Child trust daddy because he was right the first time why wouldn’t he be this time also?

BUT sometimes that child will forget or try new ways to get that bumble bee and each time failing at it. Never really understanding why he cannot catch him and play with him without getting stung. Each time the child runs to daddy to get the stinger out daddy takes the stinger out.

God always hears our cries’ and when we repent and ask forgiveness he keeps forgiven us and taking us in and healing us just as the daddy did with the child. He knows what we did, but He can’t and won’t just lock us up forever. Learning to trust what he says is our job. He will reveal it to us in the end.