This is a guest post by Grace Mutanu.
Last Sunday, the preacher was speaking about “The baby or the briefcase.” As the sermon was going on, God taught me something very profound. Something very important, about the father’s love.
A father and his little girl were seated next to me during the service but as the sun grew hotter they had to move to a shady place(no pun intended). This dad picks his little girl and places her on his lap. At some point the child decides to walk about and as she took a step, the father was watching. With every step the child took, the father was still watching and the child would look at the dad as if seeking for approval.
The little girl kept going farther and the dad still had his eyes on her, he even craned his neck to see where she had gone to. For me this was beautiful (you see if it was a mother, naturally by instinct she’d have picked the child up and not let her really explore her environment). The father got up from his seat and took a seat closer to where his little girl had gone to but he didn’t disrupt her, he just let her know that he was there. It was then that his little girl came back into his arms.
It was beautiful. At that moment, daddy was telling me, “Mutanu, I’m always here for you just like that father has been there for his little child. You must always remember that you are my child and when you go far away from me. I will still seek you and find you. Remember the parable of the lost sheep? How the Shepherd left his 99 sheep and went to look for the 1 that was lost?”
I’ve been having struggles, with my salvation, my sexuality, how I relate to others and almost everything that revolves around my life. But right there, on that hot Sunday afternoon God was there telling me that Him being the good father, He wouldn’t let me go. And if I walk far away, He’ll crane his neck to see how far I’ve gone and he’ll walk up to me. And He will wait for me to walk back into his loving arms just like the little girl did. You see, God draws near to us so we too must make a conscious decision to draw near to Him. God is a loving daddy but he’s also a gentleman, He doesn’t force issues and for that reason I choose to run back into his loving arms. I urge you to do the same.