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Happy Father’s Day
Jesus looked through the lexicon of human language for a word to link Jehovah God with a human entity to help our understanding of what God is like. In doing so He was portraying for us what this human entity should be like. He chose the word “Father.”
He taught us to pray “Our Father which art in heaven…”
The role of dad has so deteriorated in our day that to call God Father is to evoke a negative image of Him in the minds of some children.
Dad, here is a hard question. In your home are you a hero or a zero?
Let’s consider some traits of a home grown hero — dad.
It starts with compliance with this instruction: “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” (Ephesians 5:25).
Now, there is a target worth shooting at! The best gift you can give your children is to love the Lord and the second best is to love their mother. In doing so you are setting a worthy example of what love really is.
-Develop a “we” mentality, not a “me” mentality. After the marriage ceremony life becomes “us” not “me and thee.”
-Don’t trash your future. When you think of the future, think of sharing it together. Develop a strong sense of a future together.
-Don’t develop a “greener grass” attitude. A person loses a sense of dedication when they begin thinking more about “what ifs.”
“Earth to father, come in father …”
Our liberated society has broken down most moral and ethical standards. In doing so we have created the world’s most dangerous environment for children. We have a new fatherless America filled with children who are so emotionally damaged by their parent’s behavior that they will likely have trouble making commitments and forming families themselves.
Such dads are zeros. What is needed is more dads who are heroes. That is, dads who exemplify what a dad should be, what a husband is like.
Not only is ours a society of the absentee father, but it is a culture that often so preoccupies the interest of the dad that even if he is home he is preoccupied with something somewhere else. Give your children your attention if you want theirs. When you are there, be there.
A hero dad is like a pace car at the start in a NASCAR race. They set the life long pace. There is an old song with these lines. “What they see is what they hear.” HAPPY FATHER’S DAY.
Dad, Don’t Be a Dork
Happy Father’s Day. It comes at a time the family is under attack, rather than siege. Young women are urged to remain single and those who are married are encouraged not to have children.
A new crisis threatens America that is even more ominous than Communism was a decade ago. It is a fatherless home. Today 38% of the children of America live in homes where the biological father isn’t present. This contrasts to only 17% in 1960. There is another type of fatherless home. It is the type where the biological father is living with the biological mother but he has forfeited the responsibilities of the role of a father.
Parents often speak of wanting to instill principles. In order to do so there must be a gift of PRESENCE before there can be a gift of PRINCIPLES.
Lessons are more easily caught than taught.
Presence says, “I need you, we belong together.”
Presence says, “I care, we need to be together.”
Our Heavenly Father has time for us. The Scripture says, “…the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers…” (I Peter 3:12).
Nearly 80% of the persons involved in the “U.S. News” survey think both the mother and father should spend more time with their children. Presence is essential for the communication of principles.
As dad once again came in from the golf course to pick up his bowling ball for an evening out the child asked, “Mom, who is that man that comes in here and kisses you and spanks me?”
Life is often depicted as a candle. The parental role is more like a torch which is held for a brief moment to be handed on to the next generation. Make it burn as brightly as possible.
Dr. Ernest Gordon, Dean of Chapel at Princeton University ended one of his books: “In the wild seas of violence that characterize our time we are in deepest need of islands of sanity, or harbors of humanity.” Be the kind of person you want your child to be. Model values. Based on your child’s observation of you, what would your child say is important to you? In what do you invest your time and energy?
Demonstrate to your child that Jesus, the church, and your family have top priorities with you. If you do, your child will help every day be what I wish for all dads who read this a . . . . HAPPY FATHER’S DAY.