FATHER KNOWS BEST
SCRIPTURE
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
-Matthew 6:8b
In the television program Father Knows Best that aired in the 1950s, the character Jim Anderson seemed to always know the right words to say or the best advice to give. We knew it was just a show with a written script and actors, but sometimes we wished it was true. We wanted Jim Anderson for our own dad.
Today we can live a different version of that show because we have a Father who always knows best. He knows what we need and the best time to give it. He knows what we try to hide, and he would rather forgive us than shame us. He knows we are worth more than we think we are. He wants a chance to prove it to us, but sometimes we listen instead to the lies people use to wound us. Or sometimes we stubbornly cling to who we think we are and what we need. Other times we fear that someone may push us down if we don't push them first.
We need to stop pretending that we know best. We must live in the protection of knowing that our Father knows best, gives best, and loves best. He knows what overwhelms, scares, limits, or breaks us. He uses what he knows to give us what we need. Until we stop pretending we know best, we won't come to God with open hearts to allow him to work from the inside out. We won't be ready for what he wants to give.
Today, live your life in the knowledge that our Father knows best. Find out how he gives what we need even when we don't know how to ask for it. Look for the ways he supplies something that helps more than we could imagine. Let it make you more grateful for having a Father who knows best.
BURNING QUESTIONS
1. How does your life demonstrate that God knows you best?
2. Where do you deny that God knows best?
3. How does God's knowledge about you shape how you pray and what you ask for?
AFFIRMATION
God knows more about me than I know about myself.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Need-meeting God, thank you for supplying what I need even if it isn't what I expected or thought I wanted.
SCRIPTURE
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
-Matthew 6:8b
In the television program Father Knows Best that aired in the 1950s, the character Jim Anderson seemed to always know the right words to say or the best advice to give. We knew it was just a show with a written script and actors, but sometimes we wished it was true. We wanted Jim Anderson for our own dad.
Today we can live a different version of that show because we have a Father who always knows best. He knows what we need and the best time to give it. He knows what we try to hide, and he would rather forgive us than shame us. He knows we are worth more than we think we are. He wants a chance to prove it to us, but sometimes we listen instead to the lies people use to wound us. Or sometimes we stubbornly cling to who we think we are and what we need. Other times we fear that someone may push us down if we don't push them first.
We need to stop pretending that we know best. We must live in the protection of knowing that our Father knows best, gives best, and loves best. He knows what overwhelms, scares, limits, or breaks us. He uses what he knows to give us what we need. Until we stop pretending we know best, we won't come to God with open hearts to allow him to work from the inside out. We won't be ready for what he wants to give.
Today, live your life in the knowledge that our Father knows best. Find out how he gives what we need even when we don't know how to ask for it. Look for the ways he supplies something that helps more than we could imagine. Let it make you more grateful for having a Father who knows best.
BURNING QUESTIONS
1. How does your life demonstrate that God knows you best?
2. Where do you deny that God knows best?
3. How does God's knowledge about you shape how you pray and what you ask for?
AFFIRMATION
God knows more about me than I know about myself.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Need-meeting God, thank you for supplying what I need even if it isn't what I expected or thought I wanted.
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