Our Father

It is not that we never experience negative emotions; it is that those emotions come first:

“I was overcome by trouble and sorrow” (Psalm 116:3b).

But then:

“Then I called on the name of the LORD:

‘O LORD, save me!’” (Psalm 116:4).

Our full adoption by the Spirit of God into His household removes us now from the household of biology or man. In God’s household is where we have full access to and reception of everything our earthly households cannot or do not supply because they live in too much dysfunction to freely and adequately give it.

Therefore, in sheer incredulity but yet unequivocal surety, in joy, we ponder and manifest that:

“The LORD is gracious and righteous;

Our God is full of compassion. 

The LORD protects the simplehearted;

When I was in great need, he saved me” (Psalm 116:5-6)

That need—private and unspoken—can ever be only rightly understood and addressed by our original and true Mother and Father, our Parent in every aspect, God.

“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!  And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1a).

So then, 

“Be at rest once more, O my soul, 

for the LORD has been good to you.

For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, 

my eyes from tears, 

my feet from stumbling, 

that I may walk before the LORD 

in the land of the living.” Psalm 116:7-9

Copyright Barb Harwood

“All your children will be taught by the LORD, 

and great will be their peace.” Isaiah 54:13