Psalm 103:13
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
God's heart toward you is fatherly, not formal. He moves with compassion, not impatience. Let that change how you approach Him today.
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Hebrews 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Proverbs 3:12
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Luke 15:20
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.