I’ve been spending my time as of late working on my senior presentation. It has been a lot of time thinking and remembering my life up to this point, and after spending a couple of weeks thinking back on my childhood, I began to recognize my father and the role that he played in my life. Like father, like son, or so they say. It seemed to me that there wasn’t a single aspect of my life where I couldn’t see my father’s fingerprints all over it.

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I’m sure we all can agree that dads are incredibly influential and significant in a child’s life. Kids want to follow their dad wherever he goes, they want to talk like him, walk like him, do the things that he does. Kids look up to their dads and cherish them in a way that I still don’t fully understand. A child needs their father.

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So often, we use phrases when we pray like, “Our Holy Father”, and “Father in Heaven”, or even “Father, God”, but I think what often happens is that we sometimes miss what that actually means for us.

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In the same way that a child desires to be like their father, talk like their father, and do what their Father does, so we ought to do the same towards God. We should seek to reflect the image of God. God said, “Let us make man in Our image, in Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). We were made to reflect who our Father in heaven is in the same way that we reflect the person of our earthly father. 

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We can see so clearly the fingerprints of our fathers on our lives, good and bad. Every person is influenced by their father, whether he was there or not, whether he was loving towards you or not, whether he was present with you or not. The fingerprints are there. God has also influenced you and created you. His fingerprints are all over you whether you realize it or not. 

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May you seek to find how God has worked in you and formed you. May you seek today to know how God is a Father to you, and seek to understand his fatherhood over you. God is Father, and that is a profound truth that you ought to give a minute to think about today.