Desiring a Father

All my life I have questioned why I could not have grown up with a father or even a step-father in my life. My father died when I was 6 years old, but I have only vague memories of him and those were when he was ill with the cancer that took his life.  My mother never remarried and I had no grandfather to take on the role. 

In a message by Dr. Gerald Jeffers, God gave me my answer:  

To prevent children from coming to the table and not eating their food because they filled up on junk food, as a parent you have to limit the amount of junk food they have or you take it away from them altogether.  They may call us mean, but we accept that label in order to preserve their bodies. God has said to some of us, the reason we did not have a proper relationship with a father, or mother, or someone you loved, is because I knew if I let you fill up on human love, you would not have hungered for the good food of divine love, so I limited, or stopped altogether how much love I would let you receive so you would hunger for divine love.  

God knew how hungry I was for a father's love, and that only He could fulfill that desire.  He has never disappointed me and I could not ask for a better father.  

 How great is the 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