Dad's - It is all about You

Proverbs 7:1-5

“My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.  Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.”

One should look at these five verses as one of the best things a dad can do for his sons.  For a wise dad will have applied this to his own life and be living it out in front of his sons and daughters.  The eyes are one of the things we protect, and it is in our eyes that others often see our joy and our pain.  But the eyes of one's heart is where one sees and stores things of the Spirit, it is the wellspring of life, not the organ, but the soul, the mind will and emotions.  It is why wisdom tells us to incline our hearts to understand; “yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”

Often, dads forget that it is not so much the words we speak, but the life lived out at home, how we treat our wife, what we do with the goofy neighbor, and how we keep the promises we make to our children.  It is no different than at work, at work we earn the respect of our employer and other employees by what we say and do, it is no different at home it is an earned trust. 

So, dad are you earning the trust of your sons and daughters so that they treasure the commands of God and put His word in their memory, as you are doing?  Yes, it is all about you, as you go so goes your family, it is more than bringing home the bacon, dad’s it is all about the end product, a son, and daughter that loves God and keeps His commandments.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.”  For many years I have done what this verse states, and I have found it to be true in my life.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice