Thoughts about Daddy God

So this weekend I went home to say goodbye to my dad as he left for a Job with the government and not knowing how long he'd be gone, but knowing that the next time I'd be seeing him is at my wedding in November.

But one thing that we did was all of us at his goodbye party went around to say one thing that we appreciated about him. We don't have to wait for someone to die or for someone to leave in order for us to tell them how we feel about them. In fact we should be doing this regularily as the body of Christ. We all said differnt things, some said how they appreciated how my dad would drop everything and selflessly go to help with all things. Others were thankful for the ways that he encouraged those around him. Some who weren't family, were blessed by how he'd raised his children to be people of God.

And as I was in worship this morning I was thinking about the very same thing with our Daddy God. There are things I so appreciate about my Daddy in Heaven.

Here are some of those:

I appreciate that He doesn't rule us with an iron fist or with a sword, but He rules over us with love.

I appreciate how He picks me up time after time, when I fall, or am in need of His grace

I love how He loves me with out condition, or without need, he just does.

I love that He provides for my every need.

I love that He gives of himself without us deserving any of His love, but still He gives it.

I appreciate how He speaks to me, showing me time and time again that He loves me.

I love the example that He sets for us in His son Jesus. The example of what a good husband, father, mother, and child looks like.

I am eternally grateful for how He sent Jesus to die so that I might live, and share His kingdom with others.

I have so much to be thankful for. Should there be a limit to our thankfulness?
I think about the message we heard at church about the 10th leper who returned to show his thankfulness to Jesus. Yes Jesus had sent the 10 away to show themselves to the preist. but only one returned to the True High Preist to give the thank offering to a God who deserved his thankfulness.

Lord may our lives be like this leper, who having nothing, yet gained everything, only to lay it down again at the The Preist's feet. I want to be that Human tithe, I want to be the life expended for the Kingdom's expansion. Thank you Lord for revelation, In Jesus' Holy Name!