Discovering God as my Father

In this continuing conversation with Randy Bohlender, I share how God introduced Himself to me as my Father.

“Georgian, you’ve been a great servant. You’ve also worshiped Me beautifully and from your heart. You’ve been a good soldier too, you take orders well. That’s all good, and we’ll keep all of that."

He continued, “but now Georgian, I want you to know Me as your Father.”
With that last sentence, I froze. Since I never had a relationship with my earthly father, I had no idea what to do and I felt extremely awkward.

The Lord continued, “Georgian, the problem is that you always feel like you need to do something. But in this case, you cannot do anything to become My son. Fathers and mothers make their sons and daughters; children don’t make themselves for their parents. Spiritually, it’s the same way. Through Jesus, you became My son.

When you accepted My Son’s sacrifice, you became born again. You were
born from Me. I gave you a brand-new life and a new heart. Your new existence and your identity now come from Me. I’m pleased with you from the start because I made you, and you are Mine.”

I was still silent and then He said, “Georgian, since you’re so into doing something, how about a hug?”

“But, God,” I said, “You are huge! How can I hug You?” He said to me, “Don’t worry, I’ll size down. Just reach out and hug Me.”

As I started hugging, I could sense my arms going around His neck and then His arms embracing me and squeezing me tight.

All of a sudden, something happened. All of my fears and insecurities were squeezed right out of me. In that moment, in the absence of all of those things that held me back, all that I could feel was pure love. There was so much love I felt as if I was swimming in it.

(Part 3 of 6)

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