God is my Father -In-Love

    When we think about God as the father of everyone who accepts the gospel of Jesus Christ and conflate that Jesus our bridegroom, then God would technically be our father-in-law.  The law, however, is not how the marriage of Christ and the church works.  If we were to marry Christ according to the laws of the kingdom of God then we would be disqualified by our sinful nature.  The love of God toward us caused him to send Jesus to first pay for our debt of sin so that we would qualify for the marriage.  
     I was reading up a while ago about some of the marriage traditions from other countries and in many of those countries if the bride was found to not be virginal, that means if she didn't bleed during consummation, then the groom would cause her and her family great dishonor. The men felt like they had been cheated.  Of course we could get into the fact that those same men might not have been virginal either but no one would have proof like that, but that is a bit off subject.  (I'm just saying...where's the justice!)  The point is that a groom valued purity in his bride.  Christ values the purity of his bride also, but we require purification because our sin is adulterous to our  marriage with him. So to return to the example, Christ shed his blood so that he could restore our virginal honor and we could abide with him forever in heaven.  It is the love of God through Jesus Christ that enables us to call God our father.  It is not his law that made us his children, but his love.  Therefore God is my Father-In- Love. 

"In this was manifest the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.  Herein is love, not that we love God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:9-10 




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