Father's Day

Today is Father's day. I've been pretty lucky in the father, grandfathers and sons category. I had a champion golfer grandpa, a really bad golfer grandpa who was a champion story teller, a dad that was good at anything he tried (except golf) and I'm the dad to three great kids.

Beyond that - we all have a "Father in Heaven" that loves us more than the best of dads.

There's a pretty good picture of how much God loves us in the book of Hosea. In the book, God asks Hosea to go and "woo" or love, a certain girl. The first problem he has here is the girl's name is "Gomer" .....seriously? You want me to go love a girl named Gomer?
The other problem is she's kind of a floozy. The kind of gal that wears too much eye makeup and charges guys by the hour. (ask Fuller if you don't know what I'm talking about)

So Hosea goes and loves this girl despite her past and despite her awful name. He marries her and treats her like a queen. All is well, until she starts sleeping around again. She prostitutes herself again...and I can't imagine anything worse for Hosea. He loves her and she treats him like that. If you've ever struggled with jealousy - it can be the worst feeling ever.

So Hosea's probably a little ticked...and then God tells him to go back and "woo" her with his love.

Eventually that's our story with God. He continues to woo us with his love. We prostitute ourselves and fall in love with money, jobs, screwed up relationships, ourselves....and God just keeps wooing us with His love -despite our junk.

We've all got a pretty great dad...