Reseña del libro "Call No One On Earth Your Father (en Inglés)"
This book is for those not satisfied with their relationship with their Heavenly Father. For years I knew about Him through Bible study, morning quiet times, and a concerted effort to live a Christian life. I knew about Him, but did not know Him in relationship. I viewed my Heavenly Father as a set of attributes, but His love, and how He expressed it, eluded me. This book is about how I entered into a father-son relationship with my Heavenly Father. I wanted to hear Him call me "son." Jesus' command to "call no one on earth your father" fell on my deaf ears. I called my earthly father "my father" and did not see my Heavenly Father as my ONLY Father. I did not enter into what Jesus did: made it possible for me to be re-united, restored as a son to my Heavenly Father. I did not recognize that the image I had of my Heavenly Father mirrored the one I had of my earthly father. Unknowingly I projected my earthly father's likeness onto my Heavenly Father. I saw my Heavenly Father as remote, silent, judgmental, and impersonal. Satan deceived me as to who my Heavenly Father is to prevent me from knowing Him as my Father. Many lies planted by the father of lies took root in my heart that needed to be exposed and cast out. To be in relationship with my Heavenly Father I had to hear His voice and see Him in the Spirit just like Jesus did. Jesus knew our Heavenly Father and experienced the reality of our Father's love. He demonstrated what relationship with our Father is like and made every provision for us to have it too. The consequence of not hearing my Heavenly Father's voice was a failed Christian life. I knew about truth, but did not know the one who is Truth. I knew about the way, but did not know the One who is the Way. I knew about life, but did not know the One who is Life. I thought that listening to Scripture was basically the same as listening to my Heavenly Father, but it is not. There was little difference between me and the Pharisees who had knowledge of Scripture but had no relationship with the Lord. Hearing God was the foundation for developing a relationship with Father God. Beliefs and believing are not the same. I had beliefs in my mind, but a closed, unbelieving heart. I had Biblical knowledge and Christian principles stored in my mind, but there was no life in stored knowledge. I had knowledge in my mind of what Jesus said and did, but that knowledge did not give me life. I had an over-fed mind and an anemic heart; an over-stimulated mind and an under-engaged heart; a dominant mind and a quenched heart. I had a mind that stockpiled Scripture verses, but a heart that did not know the One to whom Scripture pointed. I knew about the Lord in my mind. But knowing Him relationally had to occur in my heart because that is where my Heavenly Father and Christ reside. The Spirit must be actively flowing from my heart for me to experience relationship with my Heavenly Father. Instead of growing in Christ, I was growing in knowledge about Him. I was learning how to imitate Him. I built up a false sufficiency in myself, with a veneer of Christ-like behaviors. All my laments about my pathetic Christian life illustrated my failure to go to the cross-to die to my will. My stated desire to know God, to be in relationship with Him, mattered little because I resisted suffering. Instead of enduring suffering, my efforts were on trying to eliminate it, not overcome in it. My beliefs and self-efforts were not saving me and were useless religious activity which deceived me into thinking I was a follower of Christ. To know my Heavenly Father and His love required me to embrace and endure His discipline. This book describes how my heart was opened such that I could see and hear Him-the foundation for a relationship with my Heavenly Father.
