What is the metaphor of God as Father?

Can you imagine Love, weighing the scales, so that they may be equal to give us what we out of our poor resources can give Him?

When looked at in a direct way, we can realise that things could never be equal between us and our Father, and never will be. 

The Father watches over the growth of your soul. 

He alters the nature of His vigil, as you grow up, and when maturity is reached, He gives gifts of powers, of opportunity, and of right desire. Later, still again, He alters that which He offers in so free and lavish a way—He gives the gifts of the spirit—that inward peace—that joy beyond all expression, and then the soul comes into its own.