Do you ever have one of those nights when you can't sleep, and you get all these different things on your mind? Well, last night, that is what happened to me. I was praying about some different things, and I started thinking about the Lord being my Heavenly Father.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Romans 8:15
By the grace of God, we have been adopted into the family of God. As ladies, we are considered daughters of the King! What a privilege to know that we have a Father who owns the cattle on a thousand hills! But anyway, getting down to business...I started thinking of whether I had been a good daughter to Him.
As a child, if you were raised in a Christian home like I was, one of the first verses that we learned was Ephesians 6:1, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." I wonder how many times that we as children of our heavenly Father have failed to obey this Scripture or how many times have we failed just to honor Him? As I examined my life, I realized that I hadn't been the kind of daughter that I should have been to my Father in Heaven. Trust me, there is always room for improvement. The only time that we will be able to say that we have arrived or become perfect is when we enter our home in Heaven. But until then, let us endeavor to be better daughters not only to our earthly fathers but to our heavenly Father.
*Sweet Solitude, 1919 Edmund Blair Leighton
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