...for Godly Dads
On Father’s day perhaps the greatest question every husband and father should ponder is “Am I fulfilling my high calling from God to bless my wife and children?”
Today as we open to I Peter 3, we proclaim the incredible duty that God has given to husbands and fathers to bless those around them in their life and family. God’s Word declares that He has chosen husbands to lead their homes and marriages with Christlike love. Jesus showed us how to love by His example to His disciples. Part of what every born again husband and father will stand before Christ’s Throne and explain is how he did at blessing his wife and family with Christ’s sacrificial love.
Specifically husbands and fathers have the opportunity every day to BLESS their children (and wives) in three very crucial ways.
Men, write these down, and ask yourself over the next few minutes, “Am I doing this?”
- Godly Dads can bless their children (and wives) by their Time invested in them.
- Godly Dads can bless their children (and wives) by their Lifestyle lived out as a servant.
- Godly Dads can bless their children (and wives) by their Words of blessing, spoken aloud to those they love.
God will not ask how profitable his company was, how successful his investment strategies were, how well his building projects were, He will say, “I called you to be a blessing—how did you do at that calling?”.
To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.