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.