Coming Into the Father’s Love: Coming as a Child Who Wants to Be Loved
- Rebecca Black
- Mar 8
- 5 min read
Updated: Mar 16
We have journeyed far through this series. Into some deep places that have touched some hard places. I want to thank you for allowing me to walk with you through this process. For not stepping back when it cost you something to stay present.
It is not that we need to push into hard things. It is that we are willing to walk wherever the Lord leads us. And I want to commend you for that.
This brings us to the final week of this journey. The final step in what may appear to be a process, but is really an unfolding. An exposing of the heart so that it can open. Making room for what the Lord wants to bring you into.
Not something He simply gives to you. Something He invites you to inhabit.
To come into the Father's love.
As the Lord unfolds this journey with you, and as you walk it out at your own pace, returning to these places as often as needed, remember that this is not something you complete and move on from. This is a process of returning.
The Father knows your story. He knows your capacity. He knows what will open your heart safely.
Trust the way He leads you.
As we come to this final step, something very simple sits before us.
We come.
We come as sons and daughters who still need to be loved.
But even more deeply than that, we come as children who still want to be loved.
This reaches back into the places within us that were once stolen. The places that were never held in pain, never comforted in grief, never fully seen in turmoil, never accepted in their entirety.
Those places of deep need that we acknowledged earlier are not something we hide as we come to the Father. They are the very places we now allow to come forward.
Open.
Exposed.
Running toward Him.
We come like the prodigal son came. Aware of what we have lost. Uncertain of our welcome. Perhaps rehearsing what we will say, hoping it will be enough.
We want to come running. We want to come with our whole heart open and unguarded. But we do not always know how. The heart that was once hurt does not always know how to run toward love without bracing first.
And yet we still come.
And it is here that the story turns.
Because while we are still a long way off, the Father sees us. And He does not wait. He runs. He gathers up His robe and He runs toward the very child He has been watching for. The embrace does not wait for explanation. It does not wait for the rehearsed speech. It arrives before the words do.
He has been watching for this moment.
More than that — He has been preparing you for it. Every place that was named in this journey, every place that was grieved, every place that was surrendered and brought into order — He was working in all of it. Not simply to bring healing. But to prepare the ground of your heart to receive what He has been longing to draw you into since before you were born.
The fullness of His love for you.
To love you as a Father should.
As only He can.
Perfectly.
Even the desire to come is His gift. He draws before we move. We are not reaching for someone distant. We are responding to One who has already turned toward us. Our coming is not the beginning of this story. It is our answer to His.
This is where encounter begins.
And this process is not small.
It can feel incredible.
It can feel frightening.
At times overwhelming.
Sometimes even excruciating.
Yet it is also deeply beautiful.
And you will never be the same.
Because when the heart encounters the Father's love in these deeper places, something begins to change within us. From that encounter something new begins to grow.
We begin to learn to receive.
Receiving love is something many of our hearts were never taught. We learned how to keep moving, how to carry ourselves, how to build strength around the places that once felt vulnerable. Yet the Father is patient and He teaches us gently.
Through repeated encounters our hearts slowly begin to recognise what His love feels like.
Love that remains.
Love that does not withdraw.
Love that does not need to be earned.
As we return to Him, the heart opens a little more. Trust forms where fear once sat. The love we encountered becomes something we begin to receive.
Often these places are revisited as we continue walking with Him.
Each time trust deepens.
Each time His love settles a little more.
So hold what has been written lightly. Allow it to guide you, but trust the Father Himself to lead you. These words are not the destination. He is.
He truly desires for you to know His love. He longs for you to encounter the depth of what He feels for you. And He has been working toward this moment in you far longer than this series has been unfolding.
If it helps to have a place to begin, simply sit quietly and allow yourself to become aware of the places within you that still feel tender. The places that still carry a little weight. You do not need to analyse them or explain them. Simply bring them forward. He is already running toward you.
You can pray something as simple as this:
Father, I come. Not with everything resolved. Not with everything understood. I bring the places that still ache, the places that still feel small, the places that learned to hide. I come as I am. Meet me here.
And then wait.
Simply allow Him to be near.
Each time, allow yourself to come and be loved as you are.
Exactly as you are.
Without justification.
Without apology.
Simply coming.
Fully yourself.
With the fullness of your need, not holding anything back.
Because it is here that His embrace reaches the depth of our soul.
And it is there that His love begins to change us forever.
Coming into the Father's Love series
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