3 Convictions for Building a Relationship with God God desires to to us as a to His . Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me." - Exodus 4:22-23a God is that most , and Father. The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place. - Deuteronomy 1:30, 31 God and us out of His Fatherly love for us and His desire to see us like his . Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. - Deuteronomy 8:5