All over the world, churches have rejected the Bible as the authoritative Word of God. They do not think that the Scriptures apply to people’s lives today and they follow after secular fads and theories as their source of truth. Many of them would claim that the Bible has instruction for our “spiritual” lives, but not for our “physical or mental” problems or struggles. For example, while they may turn to Scripture for guidance in their prayer life, they would not look there for answers to why their marriage isn’t working out. Instead, they turn to a psychologist who blames the problem on a myriad of things other than the person’s sin.

I naturally asked myself these questions: Why would Christians, who have been redeemed by Christ’s blood, look to anyone other than God for help? Why would children not turn to their Father for answers and assistance?

I realized that this whole issue stems from a specific view of God the Father. If one has a high view God, then his natural response will be to seek Him for everything. But if one has a low view of God, then he has no immediate need to look to the Lord, except to include Him as one more option. Our view of God is the watershed issue of whether we take the counsel of man or of God.

I contend that we must fight for a high view of God. I see the relationship that we have with our heavenly Father portrayed in my physical father. He reared his little boy and provided for all my needs. Without my father, I would have been lost, abandoned, and rejected, but it is through the love of my father that I, as a child, had life. Growing up, I had such a high view of Daddy and I wanted to be just like him, I wanted to talk with him, I wanted to ask Daddy questions because I fully believed that Dad had the answers. I had a high view of Dad (and I still do).

The children of God should view their father in the same way. They should turn to their heavenly Father for all the answers to life. They should want to talk to Him about everything that is going on in their life. They should want to be like Him. Oh how sad it is to watch the church turn to someone or something other than their heavenly Father. It is just another example of people turning to broken cisterns instead of the Fountain of Living Waters.