Making the Father in the Image of our Fathers

Twynham Church http://www.twynhamchurch.org/blog

One of the great difficulties many Christians have in dealing with their Father in Heaven is the concept of Father brought from the natural relationship we may have with our father on earth.  Whether a father was abusive, sarcastic, disinterested or absent these things project onto our heavenly Father. In the passage Jesus does not ask us to consider what our fathers would give us, but the other way around.