Comfort

Hosea 14:3b For in You the fatherless finds mercy.

I was expecting that call but when it did come I was totally devastated. My Dad was gone. He had been sick for a number of years and finally a bout of pneumonia took him.

My mother went 32 years before him. Now I was truly an orphan.

As I took deep breaths and knelt by the side of the bed taking in this new pain, this grief, this unfathomable agony I felt the soothing hand of the Lord on my soul.

He just kind of leaned and softly whispered, “You have found new mercy today. In me the fatherless finds mercy. I am going to cover you, be there for you. Now I am your heavenly and your earthly Father.”

The pain slowly lifted over the next few weeks as I let myself fall into the arms of eternal mercy, in the arms of my Father both heavenly and "earthly".

No matter what kind of childhood you had, maybe a father who was absent, maybe somone who did not treat you as deserved, maybe just some one who never saw you as precious as you are...but remember today you are not fatherless, as surely as the Lord lives and according to His unfailing promise…in Him you will find mercy.

Hurry run now...His arms are open wide!