Who's Your Daddy ?

I was thinking about this phrase the other day, it is a phrase that I am sure that we all have heard at least once in our lives. It brought worldly images to my mind at first. Then my mind went in another direction, I felt like someone was asking me a very personal question.

"Skid who's your Daddy?"

To give a little history lesson, I don't have a very good fatherly image, I have struggled with that image for a long time. I never had a person in my life that I called Daddy, my parents divorced when I was real young and I never felt comfortable calling my step-father Dad let alone Daddy. Then in my own life I feel that I have often failed at being a good father.

So this question comes to me again: "Skid who's your Daddy?"

My reply: I don't know! I know that God is my heavenly Father. But isn't He every one's heavenly Father? So where is my Daddy?

Then I receive this answer "I'm right here, I have always been here, I always will be here."

Now to some the idea of the Lord our God being called "Daddy" may seem a little heretical, but isn't this what God wants from us? To have an intimate relationship with Him. To be able to come to Him with all of our problems, with all of our joys, with all of our heartaches. Isn't that what we all would like from our Daddy? Don't you think that is what the Lord wants from us?

As a father myself one of the sweetest joys was hearing my children calling me "Daddy" for the first time. I believe that calling God "Daddy" would be as pleasing to Him as hearing my own child calling me Daddy.

Now Daddy seems a little childish for a grown man to be calling his father so instead I think that I will consider the term Dad. What better picture of a fatherly figure than the Lord.

Now how about "Come to Papa" well I think that might be a post for another time. ===Skid===