The Father of the heavenly lights

“The Father of the heavenly lights” is “God our heavenly Father”. He is unchanging and life giving. Fathers’ Day can be a time of mixed emotions. For some people it is a time of great joy and thankfulness. Others can feel empty or angry about the absence of a father figure or the negative memories it brings. We may be tempted to pattern our view of God on our experience of earthly fatherhood. Instead, we are to model earthly fatherhood on God’s perfect fatherhood. It is described in Bible passages such as Isaiah 40:18-26, James 1:16-27