#God the Father

[10yrsyart]

Luke 15:7, "There is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who were righteous and haven't strayed away!"

i was thinking about this verse recently and wondering.. how different it would be if people could see just how important they are to God. so important in fact that the Creator of the universe, an everlasting Being, came down Himself to experience death to set us free from Death. if you were the only human needing redemption, He would have gone through it all just for you.

it's up to you to accept or reject this payment on your behalf. there's no way to pay it yourself, you can never be "good enough" to make it to Heaven. He took on your punishment for you and only His sacrifice absolves you from it. if you reject Him, He will honor that decision, and you'll spend eternity separated from Him and all joy, light, and happiness. not because He's cruel, but because all good things stem from the Lord. there is no life without Jesus Christ.

the experience of the man in this comic is actually based on many testimonies i've listened to. people cried out to Jesus, and either saw or felt His love and were changed. don't wait! you have the entirety of Heaven cheering you on, longing for you to join our family. the hole in your heart can only be filled by the Holy Spirit's Presence. don't reject your opportunity to experience God's wonders forever, in a reality far greater than Earth could ever hope to be.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

transcript:

Saint 1: Quick! It's happening!

Man: (sighs)

Demon 1: Things aren't gonna get better, y'know? At least you're not believing in a fairy tale like them.

Demon 2: Reality, not delusion!

Demon 3: Only you can change your life. You're the master of your own destiny!

Man: I've tried everything, but I still feel empty...

Demon 1: Better than being trapped under a bunch of religious rules forever. Is that what you want?

Demon 2: You're worth nothing. You don't deserve any help.

Demon 3: Worthless, worthless~

Man: I'm so sick of this. It's all pointless.. I just want it to stop...

Demon 1: Yes, it's pointless!

Demon 2: Even if you call, no one will answer!

Demon 3: You might as well end it now. There's nothing in your future-

Man: Jesus!

Saint 2: HAH!

Saint 3: Yes!!

Demons (all): NO! No No No No No No No

Man: If you're real, prove it to me! I can't do this. Help me, I need you!

Saint 4: Yeaaaah!

Saint 5: That's right!

Saint 6: I love this part!

Saint 7: WOOOH! YESHUA!

Man: ..Forgive me.

Jesus: (smiles) Welcome home, My son.

Saint 8: He did it!!

Saint 9: Yes!

Saint 10: JESUS!!

Saint 11: Atta boy!

Angel 1: HAH! GOT'M!

Saint 12: Did you see that?!

Saint 13: A new family member!

Angel 2: Hallelujah!

Angel 3: Praise Yah!

Saint 14: Thank You.

Saint 15: I can't wait until he gets here!

Heavenly voices: Our Lord Jehovah! Hallelujah! Praise Yahweh forever! Holy Holy Holy. Yeshua our Savior! Is the Lord God Almighty.

Saint 7: WOOOH! YESHUA!!

God the Father: (smiles)

Man: ...I don't feel empty.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (Spanish, 1600-1667) La misa de San Gregorio, n.d Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

[ahopefulbromantic]

Broke: pork is forbidden by the Law because of the symbolism related to the cultural significance of pigs in the time and place and society ancient Israelites lived in

Woke: pork is forbidden by the Law because the pigs in that region were sick with a contagious disease and Israelites didn't know about microbes back then so God had to save them somehow

Bespoke: pork is forbidden by the Law because Jesus as a human didn't like the taste of pork so His Father who loved Him very much made sure He will never have to taste it ever

[cuties-in-codices]

god burying moses

illustration from a copy of rudolf von ems' 13th c. weltchronik (world chronicle), bavaria, c. 1400-1410

source: Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. 33 (88.MP.70), fol. 112v

[soaringeaglesingingjoy]

‭1 John 3:1 NLT‬

[1] See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

https://bible.com/bible/116/1jn.3.1.NLT

[campgender]

When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father’s sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger lesson, flattened out to give other people comfort or instruction or even a laugh. It did some violence to my third dimension; it made it difficult for me to breathe. “That’s not me,” I would think, listening to some fable where a stick figure of myself moved automatically toward a punishing moral. “That has nothing to do with me at all.” If I had a soul, I thought, it was that resistance, which would never let another human being have the last word on me.

This is what it is to write about people who are alive and then, sometimes, people who are dead. To say that his eyes were clear as agates, that his voice was a gravelly baritone, to surround him with the right adjectives and set him into the story—all this is an attempt to fit him in the glass box of a good sentence so everyone can see what he means. But it won’t work, the words can’t hold him, and I am glad.

The desire to describe voice, gesture, skin color, is a desire to eat, take over, make into part of the pattern. I am happy every time to see a writer fail at this. I am happy every time to see real personhood resist our tricks. I am happy to see bodies insist that they are not shut up in this book, they are elsewhere. The tomb is empty, rejoice, he is not here.

from Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Thinking about Jesus calling God “Father.” How Jesus — in his human nature — only knows what it means for One to be a Loving Father because he had a loving father. 

[thomastanker02]

Taken from Grace For The Moment by Max Lucado. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

@cosmicfunnies @babyimlosingit @cottonpuffmouse

[apenitentialprayer]

Also, I can't believe I have to come to the defense of the fricking Church of England, but people are really whining over the fact that the Archbishop of York said that addressing God as "Father" might be hard for those who have been abused by fathers? People are making it sound like he suggested we edit the prayer or something, but the fullest quotation I can find from his General Synod address was:

I know the word 'father' can be problematic for those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive, and for all of us who have labored rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life

Like, oh no....... he has a measure of sympathy for those whose only tangible experience of fatherhood was bad? Am I missing something?

[thegothicera]

The Celestial Virgin and Child by the Spitz Master, French, ca. 1420

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591-1652) The Trinity, 1635 “When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is finished,’ and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit” (John 19:30). - The Bible

"It is finished" indicates he has consumed the cup of God's wrath, and through his sacrifice, the bridge between God and sinful man had been established.

[koredzas]

Gerard David - God the Father. 1506

[cuties-in-codices]

cain killing abel

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?” But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! So now you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand [...]” - Genesis 4:9-11 (NET)

miniature from the "wenzelsbibel" ("wenceslas bible"), prague, c. 1389-95

source: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2759, fol. 5v

[myremnantarmy]

A New Boldness

"A new boldness is rising up in My people who have fed continually on My Word, those who abide in Me, those who have denied themselves and taken up their Cross.

These Chosen Ones, many who are unknown, will soon arise and show forth My mighty power in the earth. I will do many mighty miracles through them, such as the world had never seen before. Miracles no man can explain.

These miracles will bring Me much glory and cause many souls to come into My Kingdom.

The rewards for these who have sacrificed all to serve Me in this way will be extraordinary. I will reward them both in heaven and while they are on the earth."

[paulwwayne]

+++ October Blessings +++

+++ Unified In Prayer +++

Prayer 🙏

Father God, lead us, not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil that seeks to separate us from You and from one another.

Heavenly Father, please open our eyes to the spiritual warfare that rages arund us and within us. Arm us with courage and fill us with the peace that surpasses all understanding, so we may stand against the forces that aim to pull us away from You.

In Jesus' name, we pray.

And now, joining voices of countless believers across the world and throughout the ages, let us pray the prayer that Jesus Himself taught us:

Praying in unity 🙏

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever and ever.

➕➕➕ AMEN AND AMEN ➕➕➕

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Min. Paul Wayne

Blessings+Love+Peace ✝️💜☮

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[my-sacred-art]

Sydney Sweeney (American, born 1997)

God the Father (detail), right panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish, c. before 1390 - 1444). Ghent, Belgium.