(Back Page of the book)
…Having grown up in a very strict home environment, I had such a fear of my father – even though he had become a very godly man. In fact, I would often speak to my father through my mother. By that I mean I would ask her to say something to him that I was too scared to say myself. This changed in later years (by his own request)…
The reality about our earthly lives is that we tend to relate to God in the same way as we relate to our family and other people. Consider the following Scripture:
1 John 4:20 “…he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
Did I actually LOVE God in my pre-teen years? Maybe in a strange way, yes. I feared God and had the greatest respect and honour for Him. It was a mixture of reverence and fear.
But then another “kairos” moment happened. It was another Sunday, a Sunday morning in church during worship. While we were singing, a thought came into my mind (which was actually the Voice of God the Father): “Say to Me that you love Me…” (it actually came to me in Afrikaans which was my mother tongue). That sounded very strange to me, and I hesitated. But the Voice didn’t go away. For a second time I heard it very clearly, “Say to Me that you love Me…” It was only when Father God spoke to me a third time that I could no longer resist, and obeyed Him. The moment I said those words it was like a river flowing down to me. I said it over and over. And for the first time in my life I actually saw God the Father differently from how I saw my earthly father. I actually felt His love filling me. Today I can honestly say that although I have deep reverence for Father God, I truly love Him! And this love has only grown over the years…
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