Reuben_FootprintsThis Father’s day, as people were wishing each other, Happy Father’s day, my family and friends wished me the same and I wondered to myself. It has been more than two decades since my dad (earthly father), Dr. R.A.C. Paul, passed away. I was only nine years old then. I don’t have an earthly father to call and wish “Happy Father’s day” and as I wondered, I was pleased to realize that I do have  a father, a heavenly Father, THE FATHER, none other than God, Godself. God is the father of the fatherless and the defender of widows. I ended up wishing my heavenly father, “Happy Father’s day, God!”

Also, this year, my beloved son, Reuben (3 year old) gave me a footprint of his (click image) with the following words. He made this in his school for me. As I read the words, tears welled from my eyes as my heart elated in pride for such a wonderful son. As I reminisced on the meaning of the words, I could not help but realize that this should be exactly the words that we ought to be telling God, our Father.

“Walk a little slower Daddy,” said a child so small.
“I am following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fall.

Sometimes your steps are very fast, Sometimes they are hard to see;
So walk a little slower, Daddy, For you are leading me.

Someday when I am all grown up, You are what I want to be;
Then I will have a little child, Who will want to follow me.

And I would want to lead just right, And know that I was true;
So walk a little slower, Daddy, For I must follow you.”

Point(s) to Ponder:

  1. If God is our Father, will he be able to proudly tell of us, “This is my beloved Son/Daughter, with whom I am well pleased”?
  2. God says, “I will teach you and instruct you in the way that you should go” (Psalm 32:8). The real question is – are we willing to follow his instructions and follow Him.
    Note, what the little child says – I MUST follow you. Can that be said of us, that We MUST (no other option) follow God, our Father?

Psalm 68:5 (KJV)
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 32:8 (KJV)
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.