Who’s Your Daddy?

Since today is Dec 25, the day when much of the world is celebrating Christmas I have been thinking about Joseph, husband of Mary, lately.

For some reason it seemed better to associate him as Mary’s husband, instead of Jesus’s step dad idk why. All I know is that Joseph had a very challenging assignment and purpose over his life.

How many godly men of today could take on the responsibility that he did?

And be obedient to Yah in such uncomfortable circumstances?

So since I am writing about Daddy, I thought it appropriate to honor Joseph for his faithfulness.

The main revelation that I wanted share today is about our relationship to Yah the Father, as His children.

To sum it up:

Through our relationship with Christ we die to our old, sinful self and are reborn new, spiritual creations.

Not just creations like the rest of nature, but we are born again as sons and daughters of Yah! He becomes our Father! Incredible!

The Bible also describes it as an adoption.

So if Yah is our Father and we are His children that means He is the one raising us because Yah ain’t no deadbeat.

And if He is raising us, that means He is teaching us His ways and we are learning from Him to be like Him

And in learning to be like Him we will behave like Him.

That is typically the goal in raising children. (side note, this is why we should. pray about who we have children with and really consider if we want them teaching our children and if we would want our children to act like them)

Ok so back to it….

We are spiritual children, who should be submitting to the instruction of Yah the Father.

If we are not submitted to Him that means we are rebellious children.

Yah’s word says that to Him rebellion is like witchcraft!

So Yah disciplines His children when we are rebellious.

The word of Yah says in Hebrews 11 that He disciplines those He loves. but without discipline we are illegitimate children. In other words, we aint His!!!

Hebrews 11:11

“Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it"

Amen

So if we claim Yah to be our Father and we profess to be His children, then we need to submit to His instructions and discipline, so that we can be trained by them to resemble Him.

Don’t we look like our earthly fathers???

How much so should we look like our Heavenly Father who made us in His image?

Also the more time we spend with Him the more we will know Him and mirror His behaviour and character.

The less time we spend with Him the less we will know Him and the more will will conform to what/who we are spending our time with.

The word that Yah gave to me for 2023 is “Intentional”

As Yah’s children, we must be intentional with everything we do this coming year and it starts with our intention to be devoted to the presence of Yah and submitted to the word of Yah. There is no other way to be in right standing with our Father in this current world, that is being covered with gross darkness.

Because in our communion and discipline that will cause us to trust Yah more.

How can you submit to someone that you don’t trust?

Speaking of trust, I received a relation this week concerning trust in the Father through my real life.

This week my 7th month old baby had her first experience in the pool.

She was introduced to the water by her dad, and even though he didn’t get in the water with her, he lead her to the deepest part of the pool.

She didn’t realize that she was in 6ft of water and she never exhibited any fear.

In fact she was very comfortable because she was being held up and supported by her father.

This real life example reminded me of our faith walk with Yah.

Sometimes we pray for Yah to take us deeper into His waters and to increase our faith. And when He does I pray that we exhibit the same amount of faith, trust, and confidence in Yah, our father, as my daughter did with her father.

I pray that as Yah’s children, we will believe that He will never drop us or let us sink because He loves us too much.

This week I had my own deep water encounter involving my finances and I’ll admit that I didn’t handle it as well as the baby lol

I was looking more like Peter lol

but I can testify that Yah remained faithful as He always does in showing and proving that He is a good, good Father.

And I want to encourage us all to be intentional about being good children for Him. In Jesus name amen.