Who's Your Father?: Returning to the Love of the Biblical God

by Robert Bernecker

We make a great mistake when we attribute what we call miracles to God but deny his involvement in everything else in our lives. Our God is the author of both the miraculous and the mundane, and this is a realization that will revolutionize our walk with our Father. In fact, as far as it concerns God, there is little difference between the simple and the spectacular since he is in equal control of one as well as the other, both are integral parts of his purpose, and neither taxes his infinite abilities any more than the other. We rob ourselves of the security of our Father’s love when go through life waiting and hoping for God to intervene with the supernatural yet fail to appreciate his hand in the details of our daily existence. It is common for people of our day to label an unusual event that they perceive to be a good thing as “a God thing.” Doubtless there are indeed many “God things” in our lives. Our error is to attempt to compartmentalize those things that we will choose to allow to be “God things” while refusing to acknowledge God’s involvement in those things we perceive as less than spectacular.