Opus 2013-190: A Devotional for Fathers’ Day

A few days ago I was thinking about my father and his example.  Since Father’s Day was approaching I thought I might pass it on.

I remember one time we were in a place where he had to lead in prayer.  I don’t know how old I was but I was too young to drive.  I was awestruck at how eloquent he was.  I had heard him pray over meals and such but we never had what you would call “family devotions.”  I had never seen this side of him.  He was a self-employed concrete man.  He could build anything that involved cement and he was good at leaning on the hood of his pickup chewing the fat with the customer while we did the grunt labor.  He was not someone you think of as a public speaker.

In Christian circles there are many people assume if you don’t have daily family devotions your kids will all go to hell.  They tend to ignore the evidence before their eyes.  We never had family devotions and yet all four of my father’s son grew up to serve the lord.  I think it is more important that you live a consistent Christian life and model it than to have a daily ritual in our families.  I guess both would be better yet, but if I had to chose I would go for the modeling.

My father lived it and didn’t preach it.  That is preferable to talking the talk without walking the walk.

Happy Father’s Day.

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