"Love, Max Scherzer's Daughter"

"Love, Max Scherzer's Daughter"

Recently, an 8-year-old girl tried her hand at contract negotiations with the Toronto Blue Jays, writing a letter asking them to re-sign her dad. The note was sweet and earnest. It expressed sympathy for the World Series loss, love for Toronto, and a hope that her dad would be back on the team next season.

She signed the letter with complete confidence: "Love, Max Scherzer's Daughter." 

Jesus pointed to that very quality when He taught about prayer: total trust that our identity as loved children is enough to give us a voice, a seat at the table. He invited exactly this kind of bold, uncomplicated access: "You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it" (John 14:13).

So today, I will approach the throne of grace more boldly, confident that my identity as a much-loved child is all I need for access. And better yet, I will remember that I’m not negotiating with a distant executive weighing my request against a salary cap. Rather, Jesus told me to address His Father as my Father, a father who will “give good gifts to those who ask him” (Matthew 6:9; Matthew 7:11).

"So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, 'Abba, Father.'" (Romans 8:15).


- Catherine Reid