Being a Good Father

Being a father is not easy job. There are so many voices calling out drivers us in every direction. Our careers, reputations, and the challenge of financial gain can distract us from the important purpose of loving our wives and being fathers to our children. We must always bring our focus back to our primary goal of developing our families. Children must always know that we as father love our wives with the love of Christ.

There are some situations for whatever reason we are not able to be with the mother of our children, but that does not relieve us from the responsibility of being a father. Even the only thing we can give is financial support, not because the state required it, but we carry in our hearts the responsibility of being a father. You may find yourself in an unwanted divorce. Our perhaps in your youth you spray your seed(s) unwisely. That does not take away your responsibility of being a father. When the children become of age, they become response for themselves, you are still a father.

Three things every man must do to be the father.

(1) Every man should have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe, our loving Heavenly Father. He is the father of all fathers, who will teach you how to be a father.

(2) Our next relationship should be with our wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. We must love our wives in the very same manner.

(3) You must also love our children raising them to love God with all their hearts, minds.

Abraham must have a powerful relationship with his son Isaac. After about 25 years of standing in faith for God to bring the promised son. God spoke to Abraham and told him to offer up his son Isaac. According to Jewish tradition Isaac was somewhere between the age 17 to 21. He had seen his father carry out the manner of sacrifice a number of times. They began to climb to the place of sacrifice Isaac notice the wood in order for the sacrifice to a burnt offering, he noticed the tools use to slay the sacrifice. He noticed there was no animal for the sacrifices. Isaac questions his father where is the sacrifice? Can you imagine how astonished Isaac must have been when he realized that he was the sacrifice? Yet, I am amazed at the confidence and trust Isaac had in his father. Remember Abraham is 100, and soon years of age, Isaac is in his late teens, he could have easily resisted this father. Isaac understood that Abraham had a relationship with God and whatever God spoke he always faithful to his word. Isaac submitted himself to the will of the father. We know the rest of the story God spoke to Abraham and told him not to harm Isaac. Perhaps we see two great things, the trust of Abraham in God, and the trust of Isaac in his father. I hope we strive to live such a life that our sons and daughters will see and recognize the life of God in us.

It is unfortunate the day and time we live in even among Christians there is epidemic of divorce. Your wife had children before you marry her and you are now a stepfather. I do not care much for the term itself (stepfather), but I have learned to view it in a positive light. That is stepping up to the responsibility of being the father. In my opinion, one of the greatest stepfather's is someone we do not often talk about and very seldom do we look at this name is Joseph. Jesus Christ was conceived in the womb of Mary by the words of God. Yet God had to trust someone to raise his son on earth. What an amazing responsibility to raise the very son of God. Just think that God came to you and told you will be responsible for raising my son. How would you react, would you even accept responsibility? Would you say that you lack the capability to carry out such monumental tasks? Joseph was a man who had a relationship with God, who love his wife, and was given the wisdom to raise the son of God and all the other children he and Mary had. So I encourage every father and stepfather rely on the wisdom of your Heavenly Father that you may carry out the tasks of being a father.