A Father’s Heart

This weekend there was a profile in the Guardian online about a father sharing his experiences of when his son, then 2 years old was abducted. This man came home after work one day to find his wife and son gone.  He soon discovered that his wife had taken their son to Thailand, had subsequently ditched her phone and all forwarding addresses - effectively disappearing.

The lengths that the father went to were extraordinary - borrowing up to £40,000 to pay for investigators and detectives as well as lawyers to fight his case, but when that didn’t work he gave up his job, travelled to the other side of the world and stopped at nothing until he found his son again.

His story was so moving not just because it demonstrates the all consuming love a parent has for their child but because it reminded me that I have a heavenly Father in God who moved heaven and earth to save me, who never gave up on me or assumed me too far lost, to whom nothing was too large an obstacle or too great a price.

What an amazing example of the Father’s heart and what ridiculous, incredible, crazy-looking love that He would care enough to come and find me where I was and remind me that He loves me!

In our society today it’s so easy to forget that there is someone who would love us so much that they would literally die for us, or even more incredible, send their only Son to die for us – yet I’m reminded this weekend that that’s exactly what God did, and I can’t think of a more incredible and moving expression of the Father’s heart than that.