Through My Father's Eyes by Franklin Graham

Author:Franklin Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

God’s Love Letter

My father did a lot of writing throughout his life. He authored more than thirty-three books, the last two at ages ninety-five and ninety-six. He wrote newspaper columns, articles, letters, and sermons—all based on God’s letter to mankind. My father penned these words years before he died: “God wants to talk with us through His Word—in fact, it is His ‘love letter’ to us.”7 The Bible tells us not only that He loves us but that He shows us what He has done to demonstrate His love. It tells us how we should live because God knows what is best for us. Never forget that the Bible is God’s Word given to us so we can know and follow Him.

Because of his high profile, my father’s ministry has been documented over seven decades from others’ pens. My father never considered himself an author, a columnist, or a writer. He was forever the preacher because whatever he set his hand to do, he spoke and wrote, heralding the King’s message. He once said, “Believers in Jesus Christ will someday be autographed by the Author.”

I believe souls will continue being saved through my father’s writings because they point to the Savior of the world. Billy Graham died the way he lived—recognizing his weaknesses and his dependence on God, with the assurance of being transformed into His likeness as seen through our Father in heaven.

Followers of Christ are testimonies in walking shoes. We are testimonies in speech, thought, and action. Are these testimonies reflective of Christ? What testimonies are written on the tablets of our hearts?

“You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ . . . written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets . . . of the heart” (2 Corinthians 3:2–3).

My father once wrote, “Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive then than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.”8

My father’s ink pen is dry. Someday we, too, will set aside our writing tools. Our lips will be silent, our thoughts still, but God will still be writing. When He picks up His pen at the end of the ages, will our countenances be changed as Belshazzar’s was—consumed in awesome fear and trembling—or will we look into His face with joy and adoration?

The Bible says that on that day those who belong to Christ will be written down in glory: “I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God” (Revelation 3:12).

And that’s all the address we’ll need.

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