Affirmation of the Father

https://odb.org/MY/2022/02/11/the-voice-of-the-father

I guess it was necessary for God to proclaim and confirm Jesus as His Son at the start of Jesus’s ministry on earth – so that people will know then and by reading the Gospels, people like you and me will know now too. For the sake of the mission to redeem humanity from sin and for the sake of the ministry of Jesus on earth, which will go against the Jewish religious norms and authorities at that time. Sadly even today, many in Israel still do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, two thousand years later. In fact like during His time on earth, Jesus is vilified by the Jews today.

I recall a close friend of mine who was possibly the smartest person I have ever personally known. Scored full As at SPM and STPM and when he went to law school, he topped his class and graduated with first class and subsequently also topped his class at Cambridge when he did his post graduate studies on a scholarship. Yet despite all that, he still felt his father didn’t think he had achieved much. Or rather there was a lack of affirmation from his father despite his obvious success.

I think if we are fathers, we must always affirm our children whether they are doing well or not. No matter what, they must know that they are our children and we will always love and cherish and tressure them. They will always be the apple of our eye. We may think it is not necessary or that they are already doing so well but the strange thing is the affirmation of their father and mother is something a child will still crave for despite their obvious success and more so if they are not doing so well. They want to see us being proud of them. In fact some children want to do well just so that their parents are proud of them. But if they are not doing so well, they want to know that we still love them. Even Jesus needed that and God did that twice – at the start of His ministry and during the transfiguration. When the Father had to turn away His face at the Cross because Jesus was carrying the sin of humanity upon His shoulders, that was the most heartbreaking moment in Jesus’s life. For once, He lost the affirmation of the Father.

The takeaway today I believe is that if we had accepted Christ as our Lord and Saviour, God will always accept us as His children after what Jesus did on the Cross of Calvary. If we seek hard enough, we will be able to hear that still small voice in our hearts reassuring us as believers that He always love us and will take care of us. If we have drifted away, He is there waiting for us to welcome us back into the fold.

Likewise, let’s affirm our children and our loved ones and the people we interact with that we love them, and care for them and always have their best interests at heart. That God loves and cares for them too and want all of them to have everlasting life for all eternity. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Have a good and fruitful day ahead, everyone!