Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4

The Bible tells us that God is our Father, so let me ask you, does this rule apply to Him? I hear it preached all of the time that if we mess up then God is going to get us. I hear that if we mess up then we are opening the door for satan to attack us. I hear that God cannot bless us past our last act of disobedience. So much of what I hear when it comes to our Father makes Him sounds like an overbearing father who is eager to get us. However that is just not the case.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. Romans 4:8

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?] Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword? Romans 8:33-35

Never allow anyone to try and tell you that our Father is going to get you or allow satan to destroy you. What type of Father would He be if He allowed harm to come on us when He was able to stop it? My kids mess up and I never would allow someone to harm them even if they were bad. Now if as a man I have this attitude, how much more does God? Our Father is not only willing to keep us, He is able to keep us. 

The Truth is that we are all going to mess up, yet that will not for one second open or unseal our Holy Spirit protection and allow satan to destroy us. Our Father will never leave us and He will never forsake us. He will have mercy on all of us in-spite of ourselves. Look at what He had written: “the Lord will never ever take account of our sins,” that is why we are so blessed. 

Now the great mystery is this: as long as we think that our Father will take account of our sins, we will continue to really mess up. It is only when we are empowered by the Truth to be set free and know that our Father has blessed us by never taking account of our sins that we will actually stop doing the things that we don’t want to do. Think that I am wrong, go to a fire and brimstone preaching church and watch what the people really do during the week when they are not in church. It is the Truth that sets us free not laws and rules. We have been made free and therefore we are free indeed. Let no one slip in and try to take away your liberty in Christ. Our Father is not the kind of parent that irritates us or provokes us through unbearable rules and punishments.