THERE IS JESUS

 

There is Jesus

Sometimes, I hear people talking about their fathers and how precious a relationship they have or have had. Being their father’s little princess as a child and feeling cherished is something, I’m glad, that so many women experienced.

Sad to say, that isn’t my experience or the experience of a great number of women that I know. But for those of us who’ve lived life without an earthly father’s love…there is Jesus.

There is Jesus for our affirmations.

There is Jesus for our hope.

There is Jesus for our security.

There is Jesus to help us keep going forward. He was there during the pain of an abusive childhood. He is there as I navigate my life’s journey. Through childbirth and fears; through raising children and now as I grow older, amidst physical pain and ailments, there is Jesus.

He put that strong God-hunger in my heart as a child because He knew, I would never have that earthly example.

“Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not unto your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5

It’s been hard to understand why I never got to meet my own father. Part of me acknowledges that it was that father-hunger that drew me to Jesus. My need was greater at a much younger age than many other people’s need.

I’ve told the story before of when I came to the Lord. As a child, I lived with my grandmother, in Chattanooga Valley. Each Sunday we were at Flintstone Baptist Church as she played the piano there. One Sunday I was moved when I heard the altar call and started getting out of my seat, heading to the front of the church.

As I got up, I felt my grandmother, Nanny, tugging on my dress.

“Wait, Donna, till your mom is here to see you, honey!” she whispered.

I don’t know why the urgency within me was so strong, but I pulled away. “No, Nanny, I must go now.”

That was the best decision I ever made in my life. Jesus is what gets me through the day and the long nights. There is Jesus, for you, too.

A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
God sets the solitary in families;
He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a dry land. Psalm 68:5-6

I think this song, THERE WAS JESUS goes along well with these thoughts. Check it out.

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