Making the Father Happy
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A father warns his son often to stay away from the containers underneath the sink. But one day dad walks into the kitchen and sees his little boy pale and unconscious on the floor. Somehow the boy managed to pry open that old bottle of insecticide. The paramedics arrive and after some anxious moments they revive the child. Yet in the coming days, the tragedy continues to unfold. Doctors report that the boy will be permanently impaired. Although the child has no concept of what life could have been had he not disobeyed, his father will carry the pain of his son’s disobedience for the rest of his life.
Let’s apply this story to our relationship with God. Just Who felt the deepest hurt back in the Garden of Eden? Adam and Eve suffered dreadfully for their disobedience, and it’s true their children suffered the consequences- they couldn’t begin to understand what might have been. We can’t understand either. Blinded by our fallen nature, we have only the vaguest notion of what consequences our disobedience causes in our lives.
But God has complete understanding. He sees not only what is and will be but also what might have been. Scripture indicates that God feels deeper anguish you and I can understand. He is the Father Who carries the pain of our disobedience.
Fortunately, a miracle drug has been applied. Christ’s blood on the cross is an antidote for the awful impairment of sin. That’s what 1 John 1:7 says, “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
We who have brought such pain to God can also bring joy, delight, and companionship as we accept His cure and walk with His Son Lord Jesus Christ.
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