The Father’s love

The Father’s love

This Sunday at CDC, we also had two very interesting testimonies.

Firstly, sister Koni shared how she was so touched by the love that sister Siew Han showed her father in Johor. While other siblings continued to be too busy and engrossed in their own lives, only Siew Han regularly came back to see her aging father, week after week, and her father was touched to the point of tears by his daughter’s love. Accompanying Siew Han to minister to her father, sister Koni and team shared many great words of truth from the Word of God. However, most significant of all, much more than words could say was the love that sister Siew Han showed by her actions. When her father asked her how she could love like she did, she smilingly explained “ I love you, dad, just as my Heavenly Father loves me.”

Secondly, we heard a wonderful testimony from sister Tiara, who serves sister Tabitha and family as Ariel’s nanny. Although born of a different religion, Tiara accepted Christ through Tabitha’s ministry, and because of her new gentleness and change in character, influenced her husband and her whole village in Indonesia to such an extent that 30 of them came to know the Lord. This Sunday morning, sister Tiara shared how her father found a thief who had come to steal. Taking pity on him, her father, a new Christian, told him that our Father in Heaven loved him and would provide for him a way to find a legitimate job. The thief was so impressed by her father’s kindness that he stopped being a thief and even came back to the house and followed the family to church. It was another miracle, and all because of our Father’s love.

Most coincidentally, later the same day, at our monthly Gong family service, my aunt Wei Ai shared from the passage of the Prodigal Son which again teaches us about the great love of our Father in Heaven who waits earnestly for any of his wayward children to return to Him that He may receive them with loving, forgiving arms. Just like a new father or mother is so delighted when a child calls them “Papa or Mama” for the first time, so too our Father in Heaven is so thrilled and delighted when we learn to call Him Father.

May the love of our great Father in Heaven always be with us, and help us along our way in being His good, obedient children.

God bless,

Jason