A Dream of Sonship

Scripture Reference: Mathew 4:1-11

It was only a dream. I was talking fearfully with a tough bikie. He knew I was a person of God and was antagonistic towards me. I was speaking of the things of God. He was refusing to hear me. I said, 'Even though you refuse to hear me, I will continue to speak, because you have an inbuilt resistance to what I am saying because of your sin. Yet, what I am saying is effective, and when you hear it the Father will have come to you. You have a resistance to God the Father, whom you do not see and understand clearly because you think of your own parents, and you have anger. Yet, when you hear what I am saying, your anger is finished with and God has stamped and sealed you as his own. You are stamped with the Father.' I thought he was going to hit me violently, but, he looked at me and said: 'Are you saying I am stamped with the Father'. He had an expression upon his face which was enquiring and softening, and it appeared as though he was learning something he had never known, but had longed to know all his life. 'Yes', I said. I felt almost overcome by the simplicity and wonder of the revelation. Yet at the same time, fearing, because of the seeming weakness of my seemingly pathetic statement. I woke up. I was immediately aware of the presence of the Father - Our Father! And I recalled my sermon coming up on Sunday - tomorrow. I considered the passage in Matthew 4:1-11,where Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. It occured to me, again simply, that Jesus was not alone in the wilderness. He knew, and was in the immediate presence of the Father. Just because there was sand and dust and heat and not a lot of vegetation, does not mean that Jesus was not acutely aware of the promises and presence of the Father. 'The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases'. And so it was in this setting that the tempter came to him. The Commentator Matthew Henry notes that 'the assurance of our sonship is the best preparation for temptation'. Do you know God as Father? Are you His son, or daughter, through Jesus? Has the Spirit of God been sent into your heart crying 'Abba! Father'? If not, ask!
Author: Rev. Trevor R. Faggotter

Part of Devotional Series: Father and Son

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