From Hate to Love
I am humbled by the power of Jesus and I saw it today in the healing he has brought to my relationship with my father. This was something that was very wounded and painful growing up and even into my late 20’s. I mean we definitely did better when I was older, but when I was young I was so Afraid of him. I didn’t like a lot of the things he used to say and do. This came to a moment in our relationship where we faced off. I explained to him all the hurt I felt and how that helped in molding my sin life. Well, it was an amazing day when we had a chance to sit down and chat about his life, at a park on a bench. When I heard his story I realized the devil had just been passing down these lies in our family from generation to generation. We reconciled that day, but that was not the only miracle. It was about a month later I was scheduled to meet with my Pastor friend who was mentoring me and to my surprise my dad was there. My pastor had called and asked him how important was my relationship to him and he showed up. He was the first father/parent in over 18 years that ever actually showed up. We had a chance to talk and work everything out. It was just me and him, it was an amazing feeling to realize that my dad did love me. From that moment on our relationship has grown in immeasurable ways. Then with the passing of my mom it almost seemed as God had prepared us to draw closer to each other because of the impact she had on both of our lives. We now discuss everything and anything for hours upon hours, we go out to eat, go to church and I can honestly say without any hesitation, I LOVE MY DAD!!! It is amazing to see Jesus mold someone and even more when he does like he says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 ” you are a new creation, in with the new and the Old is GONE!!” I saw that transformation in my Dad’s life and I am thankful for a God who can take hate, a very strong word, and mold it into LOVE, a more Powerful word. Now another word I learned a few weeks ago is the foundation of this wisdom in my life and that word is also the most important word in the human language: relationship. Every situation that occurs in our lives relates to some type of relationship, without it Love could not travel on the tracks that relationship creates. Therefore, if you fix the relationship problem, you can fix Any problem. Thank you God for fixing and blessing my relationship with My Dad! Amen
