by Fred Hughes
The heart of a true father comes from having a relationship with God the Father. We who are earthly fathers are important to our family because we exemplify Christ and his union with the Father.
When we take the hand of one of our children and lead them, we are developing that same union that we enjoy with Christ and that He enjoys with the Father. We become one in the Spirit. We experience the Father’s, heart.
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. Colossians 1:13 NIV
A father will rescue his family from the darkness and bring them to the kingdom of light. That is our first and most important assignment.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Let us never forget that our old selves died with him on the cross that the tyranny of sin over us might be broken. Romans 6: 6 Phillips
The heart of the father is that his children will grow and prosper in all areas of life. For that to become a reality, they must be born again and develop a relationship, a union with the person who overcame sin and death for them, Jesus, is their redeemer. They need to see, in their father on earth, what their father in heaven looks like. We must help them transfer their trust to a much greater one than us.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:2 KJV
I and my father are one. John 10:30 KJV
At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. John 14:20 NKJV
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV
Discovering the heart of the Father and introducing Him to your own child is perhaps the greatest accomplishment of fatherhood. Knowing He will never leave them or forsake them. Knowing that He loves them even more than you do. What peace and joy!
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 KJV
Your heavenly Father Glories in you in the same way you glory in your children.
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:27 KJV
While he who joins himself to the Lord is one with him in spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:17 Moffatt
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 NKJV
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 3 John 4 NIV
There is, therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1 KJV
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Pray for true fathers to rise up and have a heart for the children, declaring, Isaiah 54:13 Our children will be taught of the Lord, and great shall be their peace. NIV
Fred Hughes, M. Photog.
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