Finding the Father’s Way

Finding the Father’s Way

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands.
Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger. Zephaniah 2:3 NIV

God builds up His ways into the minds of mankind by various means. God gave us Christ so we might have the right to call Him Father. He bestows righteousness on us from the cross, so that we might have good standing with the Father. God even imparts the Holy Spirit so that we may have direction and understanding. And not to be forgotten, God wrote it down on paper and upon the hearts of His children.

Man however, we seek to do well but sometimes unravel the work of Christ in men’s hearts. When we try to “help God along” we heap up rules and protocols on an already struggling fellow believer. We might say some thing like, “If you do this, I know God will keep His end of the bargain”. And God may have never offered such barter. Or we may say to someone, “If you follow these rules, you will be saved” and God may not have asked for anything other than to follow Christ. In our zeal, shouldn’t we let God speak for Himself? If we humble ourselves He may choose to speak through us indeed.

But if we seek the Lord, seek the righteousness that is only found in Christ and humble our minds, perhaps we too will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s return. Perhaps we will find that we have found the Fathers way.