Dear Child,
To use a term from your generation, your struggle is real. I joke about it but know that I take it seriously. You're in a crucial time in your life and I won't lie and tell you that your 20s are easy. You're going to wake up some days, look at your phone, and get hit with a million different things. You're going to have friends walk out of your life, your relationships with family members will be weakened. You will feel a monotonous mundane of day after day work. You'll be tired, beaten down, broken, hit with challenges, face hardships, and begin to question where I am.
But I am here and waiting.
Waiting for you to take the time to seek me. Waiting for you to turn from sin and repent. Waiting to forgive you, to show you grace, to prove your worth by showing you the nails in my hand. Waiting to reach down and rescue you from these terrible things you face in the world. So why don't I? I can, at any time, reach down, and take you from this nightmare. But I choose not to for now. You see what I am teaching you is that life on earth will never be good when you are disconnected from the Father. Like a tree that can't survive without water so you can not survive without me. Child please understand I don't do this to make you hurt, but I designed you to fufill a purpose beyond this earth.
I designed you for the Kingdom.
To steward well, to teach, to worship, to love without condition, to care when you want to care less, to be content when you long for something different. So why are you here on earth? How else will you learn these things without oppression, injustice, fear, anger, bitterness, hated, etc? The earth is your training field. Your job is to grow the Kingdom, to teach other about their real purpose and calling. To love even when feelings of love aren't there. You are called to seek me in everything so that one day you will know my face when you come home. To fight for what's right, but when the world wins, get down on your knees and pray. Don't try to spend your whole life trying to understand why I designed you for unfulfillment. You were designed to be interconnected with me, forever.
So when you fail, I'll pick you up. When you wake up with a million things going wrong, seek me first, and I'll work them out. When you chose death over life, I'll forgive you of your sin. When you pretend to not know I'm here, I'll be ready to hug you when you return. When you're unsure of the future, relinquish your control to me and I will sustain you.
I love you. I will never forsake you,
Dad.
