3.1 God Our Father

God’s action of turning me around has gone further the last while, than anything I have ever known before. I find myself so confined into God my Father that all I can perceive is the sorrow of His broken Heart, and every moment of God sharing life with me comes to me out from that sorrow.

A line in Scripture has grown enormously in my perception of everything outward over the last year, something Jesus said in John’s gospel. – “They hated Me without a cause.” Since Jesus also said, “He who sees Me sees the Father,” we know that it is God saying those words, “They hated Me without a cause.” The words, “hated” and “without a cause” are absolute and utterly profound.

The Center of God. The hatred against God, come to full completion, is the topic of Chapter 5. In this chapter we want to know the Father and what He wants. We are overwhelmed that the hatred HAS NO CAUSE.

In John 17, Jesus opens to us the very Heart and center of God, and that Heart and center is Fellowship. …just as You, Father, are inside of Me and I inside of You, that they also might be inside of Us… I inside of them, and You inside of Me, that they might be brought to full completion inside of one… Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me might be with Me where I am… that the love with which You loved Me might be inside of them, and I inside of them.


Fellowship. Here is that Fellowship into which Jesus has placed us, set by John as the Source out from which Christ is formed inside of us. We… proclaim to you the life that unfolds the ages, which is reciprocating with the Father and was made visible to us; that which we have seen and heard, we proclaim also to you, so that you also might have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is companionship with and among the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ (1 John 1:2-3).

We then go back to one of the most telling statements in the Bible, Genesis 2:18. And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper [a companion] comparable to him [of his same kind].”

A Dwelling Place. Let’s bring in a couple more thoughts before we draw the most profound conclusions. – Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? (Isaiah 66).

So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow-citizens with the holy ones and of the household, the family, the domestic intimacy of God, having been constructed together [as a House] …Christ Jesus Himself… inside of Whom the whole building, being fitted together, is increasing into a temple, holy inside the Lord. Inside of Jesus, you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God inside the sphere of Spirit (Ephesians 2:19-22).

And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and will make Our home in intimate participation with him (John 14:23).

A Most Profound Reality. Then finally – The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. …the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together…” (Isaiah 40:3-5).

God WANTS one thing. He wants a Home. And inside of that Home, He wants companionship and fellowship with others. The statement “It is not good” suggests to us a most profound reality concerning God. God is lonely. Now, we say that carefully, for we do not ascribe human foolishness to God. Nonetheless, inside of God’s own being, why does He want to come Home?

The Spirit Searches. Let’s come at this profound reality from a different direction. – The Spirit searches all, even the depths of God. Who indeed among men knows the things of the man if not the spirit of the man that is inside of him? Even so also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:10-11).

We have established that God is a Story of Words inside of a Spirit Self-awareness. The “things of God” must include everything that is God, an infinite concept, yet all right now, dynamic and living. According to David, the story of each of our lives forever is inside of God’s thoughts, inside of that which is God.

Knowing Us – Knowing Himself. So, you exist inside of God as His thoughts concerning you before you ever become a living soul. Yet those thoughts are part of God and not yet you, not until Jesus speaks you forth. Then, once you have come out from God through the good speaking of Jesus, God your Father is VERY interested in knowing you.

Why? – The Spirit searches all, even the depths of God. Knowing you as a distinct person is part of God knowing Himself, essential to His own Self-awareness. Then, Jesus also says, “That the world may know that I have LOVED you.” Jesus is showing us the Father. – I, the Father, have loved you.

Father at Home. And so we have this picture of a God who is busy building a House for Himself, a Home in which to dwell forever. And He is building His Home in intimate participation with each one of us. Yet we together, joined and knitted together, are that very House for God.

God wants to come Home. God wants to enjoy His family, to share intimacy with His wife, to Fellowship in all joy with His sons and daughters – inside His House. And all humans, but especially Christians, are fighting tooth and nail to keep Him OUT – to drive God far away. They want God kept out in the cold, all alone, and they hit Him hard with all pain to make Him not want to come Home.

What Is God? And they do this, inflicting God with all pain in all accusation for no reason whatsoever. They are mad! But the madness of Christians is for the Chapter 5; here we want to continue knowing this incredible God whom we call “Father.”

What is God that He needs a Home, a Wife, and Fellowship? What is God that He wants to KNOW us as part of knowing Himself? God is not a loner. He is not some solitary and aloof Being who keeps Himself at arm’s length. God is not evil. In fact, this God thinks more highly of others than He does of Himself.

Out from Desire. We can give good answers to these questions out from Gospel verses, but that is not what we are seeking here. We want to know the essence of intimacy that God shares with us, an intimacy that takes place only in the privacy of the inner sanctum of HOME.

Out from His own desire, He gave birth to us by the Word of truth [the Word planted through faith into our womb] (James 1:18). – If a grain of wheat planted into the ground should not die [in this case the appearance of death], it remains alone. If it should die, however [becoming something entirely different – the plant], it bears much fruit [many more seeds just like itself] John 12:24).

Divine Intimacy. God seen and known by all creation – the glory of the Lord revealed, can come only out from divine intimacy deep inside the inner sanctum of Father at Home. Only out from the purest and most intimate Fellowship. God, in His Being and Makeup, does not want to be alone; He considers being alone as NOT good.

Humans, in their insane war against God, then make this claim. “God doesn’t need us, God doesn’t need to come Home, because the ‘Trinity’ is three equal Fellows who always enjoy one another and who don’t need nobody else.” Nowhere in the Bible is God presented to us as three equal Persons in perfect harmony together, needing no one else.

A Movement into Joy. Rather, the Bible presents three in a totally different way, an astonishing way, over and over. – There is one God, the Father, and one Mediator between God and man, the Man, Christ Jesus (1 Timothy).

It is the Son OUT FROM God and the Spirit OUT FROM God, Spirit and Word always together, the extension of God into the appearance of a creation coming out from God’s thoughts, out from Himself. We do not place God into time, rather, we see His movement out from solitary loneliness into the joy of Family and Home as continuous, dynamic, and living. The first part of this movement that is God is Spirit and Son.

Into Family. God, moving out from Himself into Family every moment, comes first inside of Christ Jesus, that is, Word and Spirit always together. Is that not what Jesus said? – You, Father, are inside of Me and I inside of You, that they also might be inside of Us.

That is exactly what He said. God enters out from Himself and into Family every moment inside of and through other Persons, Spirit and Son, always together. The first part of this movement that is God is Spirit and Son, and then the second part is the Church. – The Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Christ who fills all inside of all.

The Church, then, is Father at Home.

Loneliness. Inside of Jesus, you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God inside the sphere of Spirit. Inside of Jesus, inside of Spirit, you together, plural, your local gathering of Church, are being built together for a place for God to dwell – Father at Home.

At the core of every human living or dead is a loneliness and a desire to be loved. That’s because God made us just like Himself. This theme of loneliness, split between selfishness on the one hand, and the insertion of self-less love on the other hand, is the theme of one of the greatest movies ever made, a great work of literature – Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki. If you get the chance, watch it. It is presently owned and streamed by HBO Max, but I just bought the DVD.

The Entrance of Love. In this story everyone is lonely and everyone is seeking to fill that loneliness with others. Yet the selfish either steal from others their identity, to possess them as “community,” or else they swallow up others into themselves in order to possess their identities.

Little Chihiro, a ten-year-old girl, enters this community based on selfishness as pure and self-less love. Through the course of the story, she wins, but only by simple acts of kindness. And in winning, she draws everyone out from their selfish grasp of one another, and she restores true identity and true community and family. This is a simple, yet deeply profound testimony set inside the spirit world, that is, inside the heavens.

God Is Family. Little Chihiro is as the Father, wanting not to be alone, wanting community and fellowship. Yet God enters a world where everyone is filling the loneliness of their hearts by abusing others. And God, our Father, turns this whole thing around through us by little acts of kindness and gentle words of encouragement.

In the beginning, God – is the word Elohim, that is, plural. This plural does not mean three equal Beings who don’t need anyone else. It means that God our FATHER is family. God our Father is meek and lowly of Heart, seeing others as better than Himself, to be lifted up with joy.

God our Father WANTS to come Home.