Father's Day (15th June 2025)
When I was a kid, I was naughty.
One time, my father had to reprimand me and he took out
the cane to punish me. I was angry and I
ran out of the house while still in my singlet and bare-footed.
As I ran, furious thoughts raced through my head:
Where am I going to go?
What is going to happen now?
Where will I stay?
My feet hurt running bare-foot on the tarmac road.
I was crying.
There were some lorries parked nearby. So, I hid beside one of the lorry’s tyres.
When you are a kid, the tyres are gigantic…
How long am I going to hide here?
What if no one finds me?
What is going to happen to me?
Got no face to return home also…
And just then, my father suddenly appeared before me. He came after me when I ran out.
He looked for me.
He searched for me.
And he found me.
He took me back home.
He loved me.
I cannot tell you what a relief that was….
Do
you remember there was an incident in the Bible when a certain Person went to
look for his disobedient children?
In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve, and placed them in the Garden of Eden. They were perfect and had close fellowship with God.
But
then, Satan tempted them to doubt God’s love for them, and both Adam and Eve
sinned against God in disobedience!
And
the moment they sinned against God, we are told in Genesis 3, a sense of shame
and fear came over them. They even became
ashamed of their own nakedness, and had to cover themselves with leaves.
Then when God came looking for them in the cool of the evening, they hid themselves from God!
He
called out to Adam and Eve, “Where are you?”
God knew they have disobeyed Him in sin, but still God came looking for them.
God
took the initiative to seek them out, demonstrating the very thing that Satan
got them to doubt – His love…
Not only did God came to seek out our disobedient first parents, He showed them kindness by announcing the coming of a Saviour who will save mankind from their sin…
Genesis 3:15 was called the proto-evangelion – the first gospel – the first good news!
What was this good news?
Speaking to the serpent, He said,
15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he
will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
God prophesied that there will be hostility between Satan and the woman, and between Satan’s seed and the seed of the woman.
But in doing so, Satan would in turn bruise the Messiah’s heel, meaning, the Messiah will endure suffering. Our Lord Jesus suffered and died on the cross of Calvary.
Notwithstanding the horrific death on the cross, our Lord Jesus Christ arose from the dead three days’ later, victorious over sin, hell & Satan!
Down through the ages, God has been calling out for the descendants of Adam to turn away from their disobedience and sin, and return to Him.
“Adam,
Adam, where are you?”, He calls out..
“Adam,
Adam, I love you,” He pleads …
God loved us long before the time our eyes first saw the light of day.
No
matter what sin we may have committed, there is no sin we can imagine that is
stronger than His love for us.
The
Lord Jesus Christ has already given His life to set us free from the bondage of
sin!
Such
is the manner of love that God the Father has bestowed upon us!
Hallelujah!
