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Saturday... I wish you could have known him.


Saturday... I wish you could have known him.

My father, B. Ivan Williams was a very special person. The day he was killed threw my life into a tailspin. He definitely was my hero. 

There are three of us who saw him from a totally different view because we were his children. He was our father. Now our father would do anything for us, his children. He wasn't wealthy but he showed his love in so many different ways.

Now the Apostle John tells us some great news in 1 John 3:1 (AMP). He says, "See what an incredible quality of love the Father has shown to us," Now there are so many fathers who have never shown to their kids any quality of love. Some fathers show no love to their children. They abuse them, they ignore them but God is not like that. Our heavenly Father really does love us and he gives us an incredible quality of love

John says "See what an incredible quality of love the Father has shown to us, that we would [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know him."

So many people do not realize that they have a Father who wants to give them an incredible quality of love. God really does. 

And I always wanted to please my father and I really did want to be like him. Verse 2 (NLT) says, "Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure."

Now there is a sin problem in here that keeps us from really receiving the benefits of being his child. And he took care of that by sending his Son, Jesus to pay the price for those sins, to make it possible for us to reap the benefits of being his child. Reaping the benefits of being a child of God is our choice. We must ask for his forgiveness for our sins by confessing them to him and accepting that forgiveness and in turn accepting the fact that we are his children.

Verse 21 says, "Dear friends, if we don't feel guilty, we can come to God with bold confidence. And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him."

And then verses 23-24, "And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. Those who obey God's commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he live in us because the Spirit he gave us lives in us."

Now you can't know my father but you can know God who wants to show you an incredible quality of love. That is really good news. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 



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