Heavenly Access

In my church, we just launched into a sermon series on the Lord's Prayer.  (I love it when my pastor just "happens" to preach on what I have been studying in my personal devotional time!  I am totally digging this study on the Sermon on the Mount by Jen Wilkin...but I digress).

One of the images my pastor projected on the sanctuary screen was this one:

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I found a few more of these iconic photos of President Kennedy with both his children in the Oval Office.

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What incredible access John John and Caroline had to a man who was arguably the most powerful man in the world!   To have a father as President, to be crawling around at his feet, playing in a space where important decisions were being made in the policies of a nation...of the world...must have been an incredible experience!

But this incredible relationship--this unbelievable access--pales in comparison to the access we have to our heavenly Father, the creator of the universe, the overseer of our souls, the author and finisher of our faith! (see Genesis 1; Rom 12:2; 1 Peter 2:25)

As the couples in our community group and I were discussing the other night, our access is even MORE incredible than the one pictured here.  Our heavenly Father is not busy and distracted by more "important" things.  He is utterly omnipotent--all powerful--and omniscient--all knowing--and omnipresent--able to be everywhere at the same moment in time.  He is above politics. He is greater than a nation.  He doesn't just make important decisions--He is ultimately sovereign--in control of all things.  The hearts of kings lie in His hands:

"The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;  he turns it wherever he will." Proverbs 21:1

How foolish I am when I neglect the precious practice of prayer!  How senseless it is when I go about my day without accessing my heavenly, all-knowing Father in heaven!

Oh, how grateful I am that God would want to commune with me through prayer!

And He longs to meet with you, too, dear friend!

Let these pictures inspire you this week to get together with your heavenly Father, to talk over your day, present your needs, praise and adore Him, and thank Him for all that He does and all that He is.

May we never forget who we are as children of the King of Kings!

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"  --1 John 3:1