My Precious Child,
You may not know me, but I know everything about you.
“You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar” (Psalm 139:2).
I am familiar with all your ways. Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
“Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Luke 12:7).
For you were made in my image.
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).
In me, you live and move and have your being.
“For in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).
I knew you even before you were conceived.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart” (Jeremiah 1:5).
You were not a mistake. Every day of your life is written in my book.
“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:16).
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live.
“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands” (Acts 17:26).
You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:14).
I knit you together in your mother’s womb.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13).
I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me. I am not distant and angry, but I am love itself.
“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:8).
It is my desire to lavish my love on you because you are my child, and I am your Father.
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1).
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could.
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? … How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:9-11).
Every good gift you receive comes from my hand.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights” (James 1:17).
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
My thoughts toward you are as countless as the sand on the seashore.
“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand” (Psalm 139:17-18).
I rejoice over you with singing.
“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you but will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17).
If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me.
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).
Delight in me, and I will give you the desires of your heart.
“Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4).
I am your greatest encourager.
“May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you” (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17).
When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you.
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18).
One day, I will wipe every tear from your eyes.
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain” (Revelation 21:4).
I love you as I love my Son, Jesus.
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you” (John 15:9).
In Jesus, my love for you is revealed.
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Come home, and I’ll throw the biggest celebration heaven has ever seen.
“I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents” (Luke 15:10).
I have always been Father, and I will always be Father. My question is: Will you be my child?
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12).
I am waiting for you.
Love,
Your Dad, Almighty God