Happy Father’s Day

From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin

This Fathers’ Day will mark the 31st consecutive one for me without my dad.

He died quite suddenly back on April 27, 1988.

There is so much that I would like to have shared with him over all these years, but I am not sitting home and stewing about it.

I remember well how hard my dad worked to support his family, but that he also knew the value of spending quality time with them in his non-working hours.

His priorities were in proper order and that is a lesson I want to apply to my own family.

Fathers’ Day reminds me that God has given me an incredible gift in which to make an eternal investment – my children.

Ephesians 6:4 says, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Can I be honest with you about something?

Instruction has been fairly easy over the years for me, but disciplining my children is another matter altogether.

Tears and excuses in the heat of the moment can wear any good dad down, but without discipline my children would end up becoming foolish adults.

My dad didn’t make that mistake with me and I don’t want to make it with my kids, either.

On this Fathers’ Day I am thankful for the gift of my children, but I am also praying that I will not take that gift lightly.

To all you dads out there I say, “God bless you and may the Lord help you to be the best dad you can possibly be.”

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