If you have a father, as I do, who took time to love, nurture, and guide you along the pathways of life that lead to joyful, rich, and fulfilling relationships, then we should count ourselves among those most highly favored! These days, there seems to be a dearth of stable-minded, mature, and insightful men who fulfill the role of true fatherhood.
What is a man to do in such a culture of absentee fathers, broken homes, and failed marriages due to the selfishness of altogether too many men who carelessly sire? Is this a fact that we must live with and simply get used to? I say, by God’s grace, no!
The antidote, the solution, has been provided through the pristine example of the fatherhood of Almighty God. There is no manner nor degree of ideal fatherhood which He fails to put on display. God is the ultimate Father. His fatherhood is that which every human father should strive to follow.
Notice the compelling evidence in the Bible that presents a clear picture of the fatherhood of God:
Love.
Empowerment.
Fellowship.
Compassion.
Advocacy.
What God is looking for today in every father is a desire to emulate His fatherhood. Fruitfulness and multiplication as commanded of the human race at the beginning of the Bible demands fatherhood that seeks to conform to the divine example. It can be done! Let us wake up and pay attention to the guidelines taught by and lived out in the many wonderful fathers at CAC.
Happy Father’s Day, all you Dads! Please be challenged today: To sire is human, to father is divine! May every child, offspring, and family member of my reading audience today look up to each of you as a highly responsible and deeply committed man–focused on truly representing godliness as a father made in the image of God.