Living Water by Solveig Jobbins

Father’s Day used to be a pretty negative day for me. I grew up with absent, not-so-loving father figures in my life. Coming from a broken home with men who didn’t represent good fatherly love was hard. 

I always wanted a father to teach me to surf, protect me, help me to be brave when I was scared, comfort me, believe in me and be proud of me. The beautiful, long story short, is that though this was painful and difficult as I was growing up, God showed me how much of a good Father He is. I would often go take in the strength of the waves during the day and at night sit on the sand to hear the waves while looking at the stars to pour out my heart to God. He met me time and time again with His love and would pursue my heart through Jesus. I’m thankful that I have this deep connection to the Lord as my ultimate Father. 

I love this photo of pure joy of Alex being a loving and stoked dad with his son. He’s carrying his son who he made sure to put a life vest on and has the biggest smile from ear to ear! I feel like this is a little glimpse of the love God has for us- full of joy, protective, adventurous, and loving. God wants to be the best Father to us and He is!

I’m so grateful to see so many incredible fathers out there living God-fearing lives and I’m also very thankful that each one of us has a Father who created everything and everyone who loves and knows us more than we could ever know.

“O Lord you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are the work of your hands.” Isaiah 64:8

“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, `Abba, Father.’” Romans 8:15

“Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.” 1 Corinthians 8:6