Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there.

Thank you for investing in the lives of your children... Thank you for being the men you are. Our culture needs more Fathers. Not more baby-daddys. More Fathers. And those who have stepped up to that calling... you have no idea how much younger guys like me look up to you.

For those of us who never had that chance to call someone their father... know this... your Heavenly Father looks down upon you and desires for you to reach out to Him. He loves you with a love that can never be matched.

He speaks so much about being there for you, defending you, desiring the absolute best for you:

Exodus 22:22
“Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.

Deuteronomy 10:18
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Psalm 10:14
But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:17-18
You, LORD, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror. 

Psalm 68:5-6
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

Psalm 82:3
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

And there are so many more.
God loves you.
God wants so much for you.
He looks upon you with a love no one can match, and defends your case, demands justice for you.
When everyone else may fail you... God never will.