My Father's Love Letter (Step 2)

You may not know me, but I know everything about you…(Psalm 139:1 )
I know when you sit down and when you rise up…(Psalm 139:2 )
I am familiar with all your ways…(Psalm 139:3 )
Even the very hairs on your head I number…(Matthew 10:29-31 )
For you were made in my image…(Genesis 1:27 )

In me you live and move and have your being…(Acts 17:28 )
For you are my offspring…(Acts 17:28 )
I knew you even before you were conceived…(Jeremiah 1:4-5 )
I chose you when I planned creation…(Ephesians 1:11-12 )
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live…(Acts 17:26 )
You are fearfully and wonderfully made…(Psalm 139:14 )
I knit you together in your mother's womb…(Psalm 139:13 )
And brought you forth on the day you were born…(Psalm 71:6 )

I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me…(John 8:41-44 )
But, I am not distant and angry. I am the complete expression of love…(1 John 4:16 )
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you…(1 John 3:1 )
Simply because you are my child and I am your father…(1 John 3:1 )

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could…(Matthew 7:11 )
For I am the perfect father…(Matthew 5:48 )
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand…(James 1:17 )
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs…(Matthew 6:31-33 )

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope…(Jeremiah 29:11 )
Because I love you with an everlasting love…(Jeremiah 31:3 )
My thoughts toward you are as countless the sand on the seashore…(Psalm 139:17-18 )
And I rejoice over you with singing…(Zephaniah 3:17 )

I will never stop doing good to you…(Jeremiah 32:40 )
For you are my treasured possession…(Exodus 19:5 )
I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul…(Jeremiah 32:41 )
And I want to show you great and marvelous things…(Jeremiah 33:3 )

If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me…(Deuteronomy 4:29 )
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart…(Psalm 37:4 )
For it is I who gave you those desires…(Philippians 2:13 )

I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine…(Ephesians 3:20 )
For I am your greatest encourager…(2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 )
I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles…(2 Corinthians 1:3-4 )
When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you…(Psalm 34:18 )
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart…(Isaiah 40:11 )
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes…(Revelation 21:3-4 )
And I'll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth…(Revelation 21:3-4 )

I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus…(John 17:23 )
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed…(John 17:26 )
He is the exact representation of my being…(Hebrews 1:3 )
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you…(Romans 8:31 )
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins…(2 Corinthians 5:18-19 )

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled…(2 Corinthians 5:18-19 )
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you…(1 John 4:10 )
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love…(Romans 8:31-32 )
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me…(1 John 2:23 )
And nothing will ever separate you from my love again…(Romans 8:38-39 )

Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen…(Luke 15:7 )
I have always been Father, and will always be Father…(Ephesians 3:14-15 )
My question is… Will you be my child?…(John 1:12-13 )
I am waiting for you…(Luke 15:11-32 )

Love, Your Dad, Almighty God; the Everlasting Father; the Prince of Peace.
(anonymously compiled)