Father Heart of God

This has probably been one of the more challenging weeks emotionally and yet one of the most fun. Our speaker was Claude Bonjour who is the Swiss version of our friend Jack Kody (minus the beard). He lives to share the Father’s heart and we became fast friends with him. The class spent a lot of time on forgiveness, which was surprisingly difficult. Tim found that forgiving himself was the most difficult task. Kasey learned a lot from Claude’s teaching that “it’s not what happens to us in life, but our response to what happens to us that is important.”

It was an incredible week that opened our eyes even more to how much God loves us. Seriously, He REALLY loves us. Not because He has to, but because He WANTS to. As humans, often times our image of God is colored by our relationship, or lack thereof, with our earthly fathers. We make God into our image and likeness when in reality we were made in His image and likeness. God is perfectly loving. He is perfectly just. There is absolutely nothing we can do to make Him love us more or less. NOTHING. (Romans 5:8). We couldn’t ask for or even dream of a better Father.