DIRECT ACCESS
DIRECT ACCESS
Fara was in the habit of entering into her parents room unannounced. Her mum would always send her back out to knock and Fara would apologise, laughing as she made her way out. She would then knock and wait till she was asked to come in. One day, Fara opened the door as usual without knocking. As she came in, she saw her mum’s face and expected to be sent back out, but her mother did no such thing. Instead, she smiled and asked her to come in, then asked her what she wanted. She attended to Fara and then sent her downstairs.
Fara’s mum then went to sit on the bed beside Fara’s dad (her husband), and she said, “My love, do you know I have been thinking about the way Fara comes into our room. She comes in freely and sometimes without even knocking and as I sat there a moment ago, it dawned on me that she only does this because of the parent – child relationship she shares with us.”
” This makes me wonder why we do not come to God like that. After all, He is our Father. Our Heavenly Father and He wants us to come to Him just like that, like a child. Are we even free with Him at all?” What happened?”
Her husband looked at her and said: “My darling, you are right, you know. See how Fara always comes in giggling about one thing or the other. She is always cheerful and playful. I know she is just a child but then again, that is how God wants us to approach Him just like little children.”
“Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Luke 18:17 NIV
Dear friends, How do we come to God? How do we approach Him?
Reverent fear is great but let us always remember that Jesus, came to reveal the Almighty God, the Creator of the Heavens and the earth, The LORD, God of Hosts, Jesus, came to reveal Him to us as ABBA – FATHER.
Anyone that has or that has ever had a normal, healthy relationship with their father would appreciate this. God wants us to sit down and talk to Him. Laugh with Him about everything and anything. No matter how fierce it was out there, home with daddy was always like a safe haven for most.
God wants to be that safe haven to us.
He is our refuge.
He is our fortress.
Fara’s parents both confessed that they had grown up and (almost) grown out of trusting God with childlike faith. They both agreed that they had come to trust more in their own abilities, in their own knowledge, in their own smarts, in their own wisdom. It was not always like that though. They had become hardened to the leading or prompting of the Holy Spirit. Fara’s mum told her husband, with tears in her eyes, that she always called her best friend first, whenever there was a crisis. She felt bad.
Fara’s dad on the other hand confessed that he even started feeling too big to do certain things now that he was doing so well. He no longer saw the need for midnight prayers at home. He didn’t see the need to attend mid-week services. He understood why now. The relationship with his Heavenly Father had gradually become distant. And as a result he didn’t feel comfortable and free to come into His presence anywhere, anymore. Whether at church or at home. It was gradually becoming a struggle.
They both fell on their faces and cried out to God for mercy. They confessed their wrong. They sang hymns of praise and fell into deep worship. Before long, they both began to speak in tongues and gradually they felt wave after wave of peace, wash over them.
My dear sisters and brothers, our Heavenly Father loves us beyond words and He wants a relationship with us. We might have wandered far away. He still wants us to come back to Him. God, our Father was represented in the parable of the prodigal son, as the father, who never got tired of waiting for his son to come back home and He even celebrated the son’s return.
We must know beyond every doubt that God wants to have a relationship with us. He will never cast us out. “All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.”, John 6:37 NIV
When Jesus hung and died on the cross, God was ready for us. The Father-son relationship became official when the temple curtains tore. “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split”. Matthew 27:50 – 51 NIV
Jesus gave us Direct Access to the Father.
Let us use our ACCESS.
OLUYINKA EGO-MARTINS ©