This Sunday is Father’s Day and is a fantastic opportunity for reflection. It’s a perfect time for us to reflect on all the dads that have made such a significant impact on our lives. It s an ideal time for us to reflect on what kind of dad we have been and what kind of dad we want to be in the future. It’s a perfect time to reflect on our heavenly Father and the excellent care and concern He has for his children. 

Personally, I love being a dad, and I take it very seriously. I think I take it seriously because of how my own dad and other father figures approached fatherhood. It’s a big job, and too many are not taking it seriously. Dads need to step up their game. We need to man up and learn to be seriously successful fathers. If we will, the effects on our children’s lives can and will be felt for all of eternity. That’s a big job, I know, but we can do it! Seriously successful fathers provide what is needed for their children. As a reminder, read what Jesus says in Matthew 7: 7-12 – “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” The point Jesus is making is simple. Good fathers provide what their children need. 

Here are three other things fathers should provide

  1. STABILITY & ENCOURAGEMENT WITHOUT PROVOCATION – EPHESIANS 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” COLOSSIANS 3:21 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
  2. SPIRITUAL TRAINING – PROVERBS 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
  3. LOVING DISCIPLINE – PROVERBS 13:24 – “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”

Here we have three things that our heavenly Father provides for His children and three things that earthly fathers should provide for the children. What a blessing. I hope you have a great Father’s day and take the opportunity to reflect on the fathers in your life. 

I love you,

Alex