Most of us didn’t have a good role model to follow. I know that I have made many mistakes with mine. I don’t think I ever thought I was making mistakes as a parent, but as my walk with Jesus progresses and we become closer as father and son should be I see that I have cheated my children out of something they deserved. Parents- I think it is not until we begin to live our lives for the Lord that we are able to see how important it is to have a perfect role model in our lives. Don’t we all deserve the best? Aren’t your kids deserving of the best? I’m not completely proud of how I’ve parented my children and the foundation that I have laid for them. My kids, Zarria, Nick, Savanah, Faith, Hunter, and Mia, they all deserve a father in their life who holds fast to the qualities of Jesus Christ. I am certain that is the best they can get. Now I know I will fall short of that and so will you but shouldn’t we, as parents, strive to give our kids the best leaders they can get? Don’t our kids deserve that? Who is your role model today? What foundation are you laying for your children today? Are we doing all we can do to model Jesus Christ in our lives today? I think my kids deserve that and yours probably do too.
Psalm 78:1-8 – “Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark saying from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commands us fathers to teach to our children that the next generation might know them (the law and the testimonies) (and to) the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments; and they should not be like their fathers, (we should not be like our fathers) a stubborn and rebellious generation (I am guilty), a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.”
Fathers – In Genesis 18:19 God says that “He has chosen us to command our children and our households, to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to us what He has promised!” In Deuteronomy 4:10 it says for us to gather all the people of the land and make it so that they all can hear God’s words – his words are – that they (all the people) may learn to fear me (God) all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children (and their children’s, children’s, children’s, children). I didn’t know these things, my responsibilities, as a father until recently. Question is, am I going to continue being stubborn and self-righteous all the while crippling my children and the future generations in my lineage or am I going to be obedient to my father and give my children the best of the best?
Prayer
Father God, help us Lord to keep our eyes on you so that through you we may bestow the richest blessings on the lives of our little children! Your will be done. In Jesus name I pray, Amen
Thoughts:
I have screwed up for several years as a father, but with the love and power of Jesus Christ in my life I am certain that I can correct the mistakes I have made with my kids and give them a fighting chance! I love you guys.
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