Happy Father’s Day 2014

10 years ago

Happy Father’s day to all dads, wanna be dads, soon to be dads, uncle dads, single moms holding it together because there’s no dad present and all men who stand as father figures in any child or adult’s life.

For those men that are really fathers I encourage you to be present in your children’s lives. You are the representative of God in your home and your children’s first example of unconditional love. Even discipline should be done with love.  Be the example and the arm of guidance they need! If you don’t know how to be a father because you had no or not a good enough example, ask God to teach you because He is the ultimate father!

I could quote a lot of scriptures on what a father should be but I’ll just leave you all with this:

1 Corinthians 13

New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Be the example of God’s unconditional love in your home!

 

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