I am?

February 21st, 2010

It May seem as of late on this blog that I have spent a lot of time asking the question “Who am I” And doing a lot of navel gazing. If that bothers you I apologize. Here is one more post on the topic, and then I probably will move on. The reason though has a lot to do with the situations I have been in the last few months. Mentoring and sharing with several individuals at a level that I am not used to has caused me to realize so many of the problems that people have come down to one basic thing; Identity. Specifically what our identity in Christ is.

I love getting deep with people. In fact, getting inside their situation with them and freely sharing if my struggles along the way really helps me to grow, and teaches me how to push my limits more and more and go into the depths of my soul and my life with Christ. As I process more and more with them and dig into my soul I realize that I have a hard time looking at God and saying “Father”. Instead I say God, holy one, God most high, whatever seems right at the time. However I hardly ever say “Father God”.

Some of the reasons we do not say Father to God a lot of times seem to be because;

  1. We view God as an angry God. We do not imagine our worldly fathers being that way, so we do not see God in the lens of love, but of anger. Many of us grew up in churches that emphasized the angry side of God, not the righteous anger meant in love.
  2. We have absent or totally nonexistent fathers in our lives. No matter what the pop culture research says about the role of Fathers they are essential to our development as men and women.
  3. We do not wish to acknowledge that someone higher than us has power over us.

I fail on so many levels and for so many reasons related to the above.

I challenge you to ask yourself today how do I view God? Can I say Father? What are the barriers to saying that to him in your own life or soul? Ask God what things are in your path that needs to be obliterated. Remember though, after asking God be still for a time. Let him talk and take the lead.


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