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Father, Kingdom of God The Father's Pleasure
Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 02:00AM 
A few days ago my son, father to his seventeen-month old little girl, texted, “last night Madeline and I went outside and looked at the moon and sang to the stars and let the night breeze tousle our hair. You could see the universe pouring into her eyes. Kids are beautiful.”
When I look at my children I see the beauty and grace of creation. A son and two daughters (and now a granddaughter), they’ve been shaped by the hand of God, kissed to life by his breath. I see decades of life to come: joy and laughter, worry and fear, discovery and rest. I’m a father, a man with limited experience and wisdom, a man filled to overflowing with love for my children but also aware that my cup doesn’t hold nearly enough love to give them all they need.
Then I turn my attention to the perfect parent, the Heavenly Father, and I begin to understand his love and care have no limit. What’s more he has given us everything we need for life and godliness. The DNA of his Spirit contains eternity, buried within us like treasure in a field. He watches and waits for us to discover the wealth.
A famous son once wrote, “God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.” ~ Ecclesiastes 3:11 Indeed, the universe is pouring into our eyes. Solomon may have been correct when he wrote these words, but his insight has been superseded by the Incarnation. Jesus revealed that the one who knows us best loves us most: that one insight unlocks the eternity in my heart.
Jesus demonstrated how to seek and find the treasure. He told us the Kingdom of God was within us, and also told us the Kingdom was breaking in from above. His actions and his words demonstrate a beauty Solomon could only glimpse in Ecclesiastes. If it’s true that God has placed eternity in our hearts, then Jesus gave us words for what our hearts already know. When I come to Jesus my heart burns from within because deep calls to deep.
I’m an infant soaking in the night sky. Who needs words—let it pour. It’s the Father’s good pleasure to give me the kingdom.
Reader Comments (1)
I know what is like being held lovingly secure but not too restrictively by my dad and bonding while looking up into his eyes. I know in my heart and mind what it is like holding and looking down into the eyes of my daughters, son and grandchildren while bonding in family love. I still remember what it is like looking both up and down into each other’s eyes.
Through Jesus Christ, of one heart and one mind with the Father, God knows exactly what it is like looking up and down into the eyes as a child and as a parent on the most divine of scales. Through the Holy Spirit shared in our heart and mind each of us can have the same bond as His child on a scale that we each can understand today. Each of us has known life as a child of Man, as has Jesus, and from there we can begin our eternal relationship as a child of God.
Happy Father’s Day!