Daddy Said


Mat 18:2  For an answer Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle 

	of the room, 

Mat 18:3  and said, "I'm telling you, once and for all, that unless you return 

	to square one and start over like children, you're not even going to get a 

	look at the kingdom, let alone get in. 

Mat 18:4  Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank 

	high in God's kingdom. 



      From the time his ears were first forming in his mother's womb, the sound 

of his father's voice, warm and soothing, brought security and comfort to his 

little soul. There were other sounds that also became familiar, but it was that 

gentle rumbling sound of his daddy's expression to which he began to directly 

identify. As he began to grow and find that this sound had strong arms and 

smiling face his heart was increasingly bonded to his father. He found that he 

could depend on whatever daddy said, that everything always turned out to be 

just as he had spoken. To this little son, no one else even came close to 

daddy's strength and knowledge. He began to act and talk like him to the point 

that it was almost like a direct reflection. When daddy would lean against the 

side of the house, the son would lean also, propping one foot up and folding his 

arms just like his dad. There was complete confidence placed in whatever his 

father said and if anyone were to propose something contrary to what this was, 

there was certain to be an ensuing argument. Listening in on his conversations 

with friends, there was consistently a reference to daddy and what "he said" 

about something. There was no persuading him that there could ever be anything 

different from what had been spoken by his father. While this could make for 

some heated quarrels with him never backing down from what "daddy said", he was 

just being the child that he was, untouched by anything but total belief in his 

daddy. 



Gen 15:5  Then he took him outside and said, "Look at the sky. Count the stars. 

	Can you do it? Count your descendants! You're going to have a big family, 

	Abram!" 

Gen 15:6  And he believed! Believed GOD! God declared him "Set-Right-with-God." 



	An incredible example of this childlike relationship with his Father God 

is Abraham. It must have been so inspiring to hear those words from his Father 

about the family he would have. There was such a relationship established that 

all it took was for God to say that this impossible thing would take place and 

Abraham simply believed it. He had bonded so closely with the nature of his 

Father that he depended completely on His goodness and faithfulness to the point 

that he was ready to sacrifice his only son. He would actually kill and offer 

the one from whom his great nation would come. He could not be persuaded that 

this apparently wrong act could not be right, after all, his Father had told him 

to do so. No matter what logic or probability was set against his father's 

words, Abraham was established in his belief that what ever his Father said was 

right and true, against all odds. 

	Of course the greatest example of this simple believing what His Father 

spoke is Jesus. Before He was even born, the sound of His Father's voice could 

be heard as it spoke prophetic words of the life before Him. Though he had an 

earthly father in Joseph to which he showed great honor and respect, it was the 

sound of His heavenly Father's voice and learning all that He had spoken that 

really consumed his passions. He only did and said what He saw His Father do and 

say. He became a direct reflection of His Father, standing, walking, talking and 

doing everything in the way His Father showed Him. When he was confronted with 

temptations to do something that wasn't what He had seen His Father do, there 

was an immediate and natural reaction of, "But Daddy said this about that". He 

could never be swayed from what had been established and bonded in His heart; 

this simple belief that whatever Daddy said was true. Any attempt to persuade 

otherwise was met with unbending opposition. Though it sometimes resulted in 

some pretty intense quarrels, He was just being the child that He was, 

completely established in a relationship with a Father who had proven Himself to 

be faithful and true.

	There are words that have been spoken over us before we even entered this 

earth. There has been a sound expressing the heart of God and forming the Words 

of life that exist for the benefit of His children. There is an awesome 

possibility of relationship with this sound when it represents more than just 

written words. When it becomes for us the voice of our very own Father to whom 

we are eternally bound, we take on the nature of a child that accepts nothing 

contrary to what He has spoken. To every opposing thought or challenge there is 

an immediate and natural response of "But my Daddy said this". There may be some 

pretty intense quarrels at times as we fail to give in on any level, but, after 

all, we're just being the children that we are, completely established in a 

relationship with a Father who has proven Himself to be faithful and true. 




5/1/04