FATHERS, LOVE UNRESERVEDLY

We need to love our children UNRESERVEDLY! Deuteronomy 6:5 has this to say:“Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength”

Fathers, we need to model love through our personal life – our conduct, attitude, and actions. Firstly, is to love God with everything that is within us. We need to model loving God for our children. We need to have passion for God and not for worldly things. They will follow us whichever way we live. We show our children our faith by the measure of our love for God. If we love other things we become idolatrous. The scripture says that where our treasure is there will our hearts be also. It means that if we treasure our career, our money and possession, our pleasure and passion, we would pour all our time and effort into it. Our children will learn that from us. We need to model our love for God. We need to show them that loving God is top priority - the most important thing in life. Let us transfer godly values to our children by showing them that loving God with all our heart, soul and mind is more important that what money, fame and pleasure can give us.

Secondly, is to love the Word of God – the way to true living! Psalm 119:9-11 - How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Thirdly, is to love others. When we show love to others it can be seen. Such kindness, generosity, and attitude of love would be like putting a good handle in the hands of our children and they will grow up to love others too, in fact, very easily and very spontaneously.

Fathers need to model faithfulness in our marriage. Advice to fathers: None of us can claim that our marriage is always so wonderful. There were times when we struggle through our relationships. But no matter how tough it may be we should never succumbed to any temptation to walk out of it, to be unfaithful, or to be fall into sin. In a world of so much brokenness there is a need for us believers to model a stable marriage, a stable family by working out our differences and allowing God to be the center of our lives and marriage.

Fathers need to model integrity in our workplace. Proverbs 11:3 - The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. In all our dealings, our work, and career development INTEGRITY is the most important commodity to have. Crookedness of our dealings and behaviors will ultimately destroy us. Fathers need to bear in mind that when we let integrity leads us and guides us we will do well and will walk securely. Proverbs 10:9 tells us that “whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.”