Who's Your Daddy?

For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus ~ Galatians 3:26 NLT

The world we inhabit has changed. The role of the Father is often not being fulfilled as it should be in so many instances; the family has deteriorated and so has the culture. In America many homes are now headed up by single and sometimes overwhelmed mothers. The family is increasingly without benefit of a father as its spiritual leader. Even when there is a father present, he may be not be a godly influence due to the misconception perpetrated by the culture that he only needs to bring home a paycheck. 

The modern father in Western civilization is depicted unfairly as ineffective and inept. He has been so emasculated in our society - his calling as a man, a husband and a father, the way God intended him to be - is going the way of dinosaurs. How sad and inaccurate a message is that for the future of families? In reality, the modern father is often distracted, disconnected, unwilling, unavailable and remote; An equally sad but truthful representation of fathers.

Many who read this grew up without a loving father. Other readers may be the women who raised children in homes where the father was remote and did not fulfill his god-given role to love his children. Others still, who read this may have had to be both mother and father to their children because the father simply wasn't in the picture. The good news is God still reigns!

There are some men who were and are faithful fathers - men who understood what they had been called to do in order for the word of God to be honored. We praise God for men who teach their children about the Lord and make it easy for them to believe in a loving Heavenly Father. There are still wonderful men who have compassion for their children and nurture them in the truth of God's word. Many men still live out the mandates of fatherhood of being slow to anger, abounding in love and of faithfulness to the Lord and to their families. For those men, we have reason to rejoice. They are worthy of honor. 

But what about the rest? Who is their daddy? I contend that God Himself stands in the gap. 
1 Corinthians 4:15b tells us "For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers....

Where does that leave the rest? Where is the daddy for us? Better - Who is the Daddy for us?

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:1-2)

The Heavenly Father adopts us into His family. Hallelujah! What a promise and a provision!

I pray these written words should not be perceived as ones of doom, gloom or man-bashing. The world we live in is a painful one and to ignore the truth of the condition of the modern family is dangerous. So what is the remedy? Where can we look for good news? What balm will soothe our souls? What gives us relief from the painful reality that our fathers and the fathers of our children might not have been all they were called to be?

Regardless of the questions in our lives, the answer will always be Jesus. Always! And let's not forget to be grateful for and extend honor to the many men who loved and continue to love their families well and for those men who stepped in to fill the abdicated spaces. 

On this Fathers' Day, to all my siblings in Christ I say: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:2 NIV 

I hope you are indeed happy on this Father's day knowing you have a faithful Father Who loves You so much that He died for you so you could be with Him for all eternity.

So... now tell me .... Who's Your Daddy? 
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