"Your Creator will be like a husband to you--the LORD Almighty is His name" (Isa. 54:5, GNB).

"Our Father which art in heaven ..." are the words Jesus told us to say when we kneel to pray. An infinite Father with billions of people to care for, He gives personal attention to each of us. And that's what we must believe.

He gives personal love to each of us. He loves the man of whom He says "it is not good that [he] be alone" who does not have "an help meet for him" to share his loneliness (Gen. 2:18; the GNB says, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him"). When Jesus had to go away He sent the Gift of the Holy Spirit to be the constant Companion of anyone who appreciates the One who is called to sit down beside us and never leave us (John 14:16, 17). He permits all earthly support to go away so that we may learn to appreciate that He keeps His promise not to forsake us. (When some men become widowers they learn that.)

To the grieving widow who senses that her loneliness is peril-frought, He says: "Your Creator will be like a husband to you--the LORD Almighty is His name" (Isa. 54:5, GNB). All these many ministries are in that word "Father!"

It's on purpose that so much of the Bible is taken up with our personal problem of fear, of alone-ness, of inadequacy. "Where could I go to escape from You, ... away from Your [loving] presence? ... Even the darkness is not dark for You, and the night is as bright as the day" (Psalm 139:7-12, GNB).

When He promised to send you the "Comforter" He is faithful; don't think you must endlessly beg Him to do what He promised, for that implies that you doubt His fidelity. Thank Him that He has kept the promise! You don't want to keep saying "Father!" in tones of unbelief. Stay on your knees until you see what you would be like if He had indeed forsaken you! Then thank Him for saving you from hell itself!