God lives and works today.
If you have a childlike relationship to God
as your loving Father, you will experience His
reality in every situation.
But suppose you don't have such a relationship.
How can you enter into one?
Listen to today's meditation by Basilia Schlenk called
To Talk with the Father.
Heavenly Father, I'm Thy child.
Is there better to be found than such
loving union?
Oh, how blessed to be with Thee.
Day and night secure to be by Thy
love surrounded.
Does God seem far away from you?
Do you feel you're too bad and sinful
to have a close relationship with Him, even
though you've confessed your sins before God and
men?
Do you feel as if you're a hopeless
case, as if nothing good can ever come
out of your life?
Don't think that way any longer.
Instead, let's stop for a minute and come
to the Heavenly Father and pray.
My Father, I want to trust You at
all times because You're so good.
I thank You that You do nothing more
readily and gladly than forgive Your children.
It's Your joy to cover us with the
precious blood of Your only begotten Son, Jesus,
so that all of our sins are washed
away.
I thank You, Lord, that the worst sinners,
when they repent, are the people You love
the most, because on them You find the
blood of Your Son, Jesus.
His blood is our garment of righteousness.
Thank You for loving the neediest of Your
children.
On them You can pour out the greatest
of Your riches.
Thank You for accepting us poor sinners who
really only deserve hell.
But You welcome us into heaven when we
trust in Your fatherly goodness and call upon
the dearest name there is, the name of
Your only begotten Son, Jesus.
One name there is, one name in earth
and heaven, one and all.
His glorious power, victorious might, it is the
name of Jesus.
Yes, my father, I praise you that you're
so kind.
Even when I stretch my mind to its
limits to try to imagine your goodness, my
thoughts are still too small.
Your mercy is deeper than the ocean, and
who can fathom the depths of the sea?
My father, no one is like you.
You're nothing but goodness and mercy.
Therefore, I'll be happy with my poverty and
all my sinfulness, because I know your eyes
look down on me with pity.
My very wretchedness entitles me to a special
share in your love and help.
Yes, my father, I can always rejoice that
I'm your child.
Why should I worry about whether I'm poor
or rich, ugly or beautiful in your eyes?
I am and remain your child.
Nothing can separate me from your love.
That's my happiness.
Oh, my father, what else could I wish
for than to be your child?
Heavenly Father, I'm Thy child.
Tell me, is there anything in the world
more blessed?
How can trouble hurt or harm while I
rest within God's arm?
God esteems me precious.
You have been listening to a program written
by Basile Schlenk of the Little Land of
Canaan.
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