KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Father
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR once said, "By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact...
But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation. . . . It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battlefield but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven.'"
You can not just accidentally be a good father; you've got to be proactive about it. You've got to plunge into the task of fathering with the same kind of energy and drive you apply to your corporate goals, your business goals - or your golf game. It's great to try to influence the culture, but the best way of influencing the culture is to influence the home and raise your children in the nurture and instruction of the Lord.
Is there something you need to cancel in order to be with your kids this week?
Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. (Anonymous)
KneEmail: "And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord" (Eph. 6:4).