Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
It’s a joy to pray to “our Father which art in heaven”:
(a) The tender memories enter in of what a father should be to a child.
(b) Even if your earthly father was not what he should be, the Holy Spirit works overtime to bring that emotional sense.
(c) You know that the heavenly Father is infinite; which means, his phone is never off the hook.
(d) He has time to listen to you, patiently.
(e) You don’t need to think you must share Him with others; He is all yours, forever!
(f) He sees if a little sparrow falls on the forest floor (Matt. 10:29); therefore think how much more He cares about YOU, and the problems you are having.
(g) Your heavenly Father is especially described as One who “seeth in secret (Matt. 6:4).
(h) This is emphasized by the command to “enter into thy closet, and ... shut thy door”(vs. 6). Jesus couldn’t make His assurance of confidentiality plainer!
(i) The promise that the One who “seeth in secret” will “reward thee openly” must mean that He acts on every sincere prayer you offer to Him “in secret.”
(j) You and He will have secrets to share between you and Him! He invites your intimacy.
(k) You will hold your head high forever after; no great social leader from the world’s highest families will have an edge on you!
(l) Adopted into the “family of God,” you already live in what is in reality a “mansion.”
(m) The Father “has made us accepted in the Beloved,” and has adopted us (Eph. 1:5, 6).
(n) You are actually living with your heavenly Father; He resides with you,—yes! Now remember that: your housemates may not cherish your faith, but you are living “in secret” with your heavenly Father. You and He have a secret life.
(o) “Abide in Me, and I in you,” says Jesus in John 15:4. The Father and the Son are One. One’s promise is the same as the other’s.
(p) Paul says that the Father “was [is] in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:19). This is the “in secret” job that you share with your Father; from now on you and He work together “in secret.”
(q) You feel like you have failed? Talk all about it “in secret” with your heavenly Father; oh joy! He hears you and He saves you! He will “in no wise cast you out” (see John 6:37).
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