Even without a father, look what you have accomplished in life.

Would you have wanted it any different; have a father, but pursue no purpose?

I know you may be asking, “Can’t I have both; a father, and a thriving purpose?”

Well, maybe your father was just a conduit to bring the savior (you) into the world. Like Mary, and the boy Jesus, maybe God doesn’t need your father to help him bring you up.

Besides, you absent father could be the ‘thorn’ in your flesh to keep you humble. Yes! That’s right. Because your greatness is so huge that like Jacob, if your hip (your father) isn’t dislocated, you may become very prideful, and even see yourself as a god like King Nebuchadnezzar did.

God doesn’t want to discipline you by turning you into an animal. Yes! He loves you, and will discipline you from time to time. But he asks you that you take your eyes off the venomous snakes AROUND YOU which are biting you, and LOOK UP to the bronze serpent on the CROSS (his Word,  Christ).

What does the Bible say in Romans 12: 2? As much as your mind is disturbed, and your soul is hurting, look up to Jesus, look up to the Word, and renew your mind with it, so that your body will be transformed [Romans 12:2].

Lecrae, you did have an absent father, but you have a helpful mother. Some of us didn’t even get the helpful mothers. We virtually brought ourselves up. Their monies came through, as well as some resources, but what is a body (physical love/need) without any soul (emotional love/needs)? But guess what, the father all of all fathers stepped in.

By the age of 12, the boy Jesus knew his Heavenly Father, and his PURPOSE.

Emotional pain is very hurtful, but a cheerful heart is medicine to your flesh and bones. Thank God that your father didn’t abort you as a fetus. Thank God that your father didn’t spill on the floor the sperm which was destined to form you. Thank God for his life, and for being a faithful conduit. Then let it end there. Put the rest into God’s hands; the one who beautifies the lilies will beautify your life too.

Your problem is like that of Hagar’s: You are looking at your surroundings and your finished resources (water, love), hence, you have been crying and have even given up on your Ismael.

If only you will look up to God, if only you will pray to him with a SURRENDED HEART, and WILL, if only you will listen to him, he will OPEN your eyes to see the stream of (lovely) water just in front of you, which should you drink, you will NEVER thirst again.

Waiting to drink from the “well of your father” will make you thirst again. But if only you knew who it is that is calling you to drink, you will ask him to give you the living water which WHEN YOU DRINK YOU WILL NEVER THIRST AGAIN.

I know you love your dad, but you don’t love him more than God who sent his ONLY begotten son to die for him.

Lecrae, leave daddy to God, and WHOLEHEARTEDLY look up to the the bronze serpent on the cross (Jesus) and all those venomous snakes of rejection, disappointment, neglect, hatred, jealousy around you will CEASE, and you would be healed of all pain.

Mr. Lecrae, I love you, and I know that God loves you more.

Sometimes, as a great person, you would have to experience the greatest of pain (Jesus praying fervently in the garden, Moses wandering in the wilderness for years after running away from Egypt, etc)

Mr. Lecrae, you are NOT the target of your pains. Your pains are trying to get to your purpose, to ‘destroy’ it. Are you going to let this great pain REFINE you like God, or are you going to let it BURN you up? You Decide!

Mr. Lecrae, Death or Life? Like Jesus said, I prefer you choose LIFE. I, Jesus have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.

I, Jesus, am the Way (are you lost?), the TRUTH (are you tired of all the lies?), and the LIFE (are you dying on the inside?). No one goes to the Father except through me. Amen.