For many, man’s perception of God has been skewed. Even after 2,000 years of Christianity how most people see God is contrary to His desire.
Over 70 years ago a wonderful man of God, E.W. Kenyon pointed out the truth that has shadowed the thinking of so many. The following is an excerpt from an article on the subject of the Father-God:
For many years as a preacher and a Bible teacher; I failed to grasp the significance of the Father Revelation.
One must realize that no other religion but Christianity, has a Father-God, and even the Jews had no conception of a Father-God until Jesus began to teach.
The thing was so new and so startling to them that they stoned Him for it … They said, “Because He makes God His Father, therefore He is a blasphemer and ought to die.”
It is remarkable that at no period of the Church, since Reformation, has there been any adequate teaching of the Fatherhood of God.
Modern Christianity is practically a Jesus religion. The majority of Christians pray to Jesus. Jesus said, “When ye pray, say “Our Father who art in heaven” and “In that day ye shall ask me nothing but whosoever ye ask the Father in my name I will give it you.”
When I say we have a Jesus religion, all you need to do is turn to the hymnbooks. There are very few “Father” songs. When I began to write hymns, there were only two or three popular Father songs in all the range of hymnology.
The Father fact is the basis of all the range of Christianity. Jesus came to introduce the Father. “No one hath seen God at any time. The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father; He hath introduced Him.”
You cannot think of the word “Father” without thinking of a family. You cannot think of the word “Father” without an unconscious feeling of nearness to Him. You cannot say “My Father” without feeling His embrace.
When you call Him “God”, there is a sense of Him being afar off – hard to approach. But when you say “Father”, there is a place to rest your head.
When Jesus said, “In my Father’s house there are many mansions” – and “I will come again and receive you to myself,” Jesus made Heaven real, attractive, wanted. No longer just God, upon a throne; Holy Righteous and unapproachable, but a Father in His great home, waiting for His children to come.
Agape, Bob