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The emotions surrounding the moment a 17-year-old girl saw her real father for the very first time, presented in a television program, brought tears to my eyes.
At age 11 she had come home from school one day to find her mother with a photo album. Her mother said, "You'll find pictures of a man in there you don't know. He's your real father."
Out of her confusion and myriad questions came an intense desire to meet the father she had never known.
In her adolescent way, the girl searched for him for six years without success. Someone who knew about her longing to see her dad chose to personally intervene, and through a private investigator eventually found her father.
Not knowing whether it was the right thing to do, the benefactor arranged to meet the girl without telling her why. There the person asked her, "Do you really want to see your father?"
"Oh yes, more than anything!"
"Well, he's in the room next door waiting to see you."
After six years of disappointments, she broke down in tears of disbelief as her real father walked into the room with a large bouquet of flowers. He explained that after the marriage had broken up, he had not wanted to confuse her by having her grow up with two fathers.
Do you know your Father?
Surprising as it may sound, we, too, have a Father whom we have never seen-not a physical, flesh-and-blood father, but our Heavenly Father.
The emotions of a young girl seeing her real father for the first time can be similar to our experience as believers. We are born into a physical life without prior knowledge of our Heavenly Father. When called by God we perceive the Kingdom of God in limited ways, but we still do not know or see the Father as He actually is.
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