We are living in a Church era that has so much familiarized herself with GOD being a Creator that is seated in the far away heaven who is asking us for worship and sacrifices: we have known GOD so much but only at the level of GOD and King but not so much as our Father. The actual state of our identity in Christ Jesus is in beholding God not just as GOD but ultimately as Father. If GOD is just but GOD to us, the much we can have in Him is just the part of being called His people like the children of Israel who could not so much relate with Him from a close range but through an intermediary. The heartbeat of GOD and His yearning towards us is not just that we should be called His people but that He should be Father to us, and we should become to Him sons and daughters; members of His family, His Kingdom.

Jesus said, "And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me" (Luke 22:29.) (Meaning as much as I have, I give unto you.)

At another place, the Holy Spirit bore witness to the same truth through Apostle John by saying, “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3: 1.)

Much more than being our GOD and King, the eternal purpose of GOD that He has proposed towards us is to regain fatherhood in Him (what mankind lost in Adam, the first man). This is our true identity and everlasting inheritance in Him. I enjoy hearing it anytime I hear our Lord Jesus calling GOD Father throughout the four Gospels. It gives me joy and a sense of completeness in the new life. Jesus didn't monopolize the Father; He is equally our Father just as He is His.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “ABBA, FATHER.” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. (Romans 8:14 —15.)

There is nothing we enjoy in GOD that is more than this. There is nothing we come to pick from God that is more than this covenant of fatherhood. Wow! It is the greatest of all our privileges in our GOD and our everlasting King.

Hallelujah!

What could be more? This outweighs all things; our imaginations, our possessions, and our expectations. He is not just our GOD and King, He is our Father.

Let me ask you, as you relate with Him day in, day out, what do you call Him or how do you go to Him, do you supposed to be talking to a king who is far off, who is not interested in your every moment?

Do you come or relate with GOD with the attitude that ‘I wished He could do this for me and I would be gone?’

If that is what you do, you are not doing the right THING. He is God, no doubt; He is the King of kings, no doubt, but is much more to us than just King and God, He is our Father.

Jesus at a point told the people, I will no longer call you servants but friends; let's see the account according to John chapter 15 verse 15, see what the Bible says, “No longer do I [Jesus] call you servants, for a servant, does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”

He is our Father first of all. He is our King and Lord because we have willingly accepted Him as Father to reign over our lives. Until we have understood God as Father and relate with Him as such, we can't step deep into the provisions and the place He has prepared for us in His heart. Don't just treat Him as if God is a pay point you go to get your goods picked up, and you are on your way. Or you come to drop your deposits and expect the cashier to credit your account quickly and you are on your way. No, He is first our Father.

Jesus reassured us of the love of God towards us before His ascension, He declared to us and them — the Apostles: “Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God” (John 20:17).

He gave birth to us by His Spirit. (See John 3:6, 1:12.) We are God's children, sons by covenant, not merely by blood. There are limitations to being born of blood; blood could fail, blood could expire, blood could die, blood could run dry, and blood could be limited in supply. But the covenant is eternal — its lifespan is as long as the age of GOD Himself, our Father.

Come in as a child, a son, a daughter, knowing that you can't be turned down. You can't be rejected as a son or as a child, but you could be rejected as a servant. A servant has limited access to the fullness of the home. We are coheirs with Christ. All that the Father has is ours just as they are Christ's. Our ultimate privilege and relationship in GOD are that He is our Father and nothing can undo this eternal covenant; always come boldly.

Hallelujah!!!

Thanks for the gift of your time, I am John Ojoagbene!

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