And the heavenes opened

^{Matthew 3 :16-17
"16}As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. ¹⁷And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."


"And the heavens opened up" I have always had a hard time imagining thing scene from Matthew. I mean what does it look like to have the heavens opened up. I think the picture here does that sentence an injustice. I think what really happened was that the people who where there got a glimpse of heaven that day. I think that God that day was there to watch his son begin the path of his destiny the plan he had for his son was finally beginning. And God couldn't have been more happy about it. For those of you who are fathers think of watching your son (or daughter) succeed at a sporting event, or you catch them doing a good deed without knowing anybody is watching. Whatever it is you know the feeling of pride that builds up inside of you until you cannot contain it any longer. For those of you who are sons and daughters think of the look on your fathers face after you have just succeeded. You can see the pride and the joy he has in you. Those feelings are only pale comparisons to what took place between God the perfect father and Jesus the perfect son. Because no matter how good we are or how hard we try we will never be the perfect child that Jesus was or the perfect Father that God is.

Even so. We yearn for that look from our fathers, or to be able to have that pride in our children. How much more then should we crave and long for the same from Our true Father in God. No matter how good ( or terrible ) your dad was. And no matter how proud (or disappointed) you are in your children. We can all have the Perfect love of our father in heaven because while we are still not perfect he has already sent his son as the atoning sacrifice of our sins, So that once and for all we can be taken into the family of God and be called his sons. And even more that one day we can hear his voice saying about us "this is my son, whom I love, and with whom I am well pleased" Oh how I long for that day, and I am sure that you do too. All we have to do is ask, Ask him what his plan is for us and then listen,
listen to what he has to say. Then do it. This is all he asks. Yes it will be tough, yes it may be completely opposite of your plans but If we want to hear the voice of our father ,one day, say " This is the one in whom I am pleased" then we must be open and willing to wreck our lives ( in mans terms) for him, because he has already done it for us by sacrificing his Son for our sins.