Celebrate Your Father

To ask you to ignore the failures of a dysfunctional father is unfair, however, I would encourage you to celebrate anything good that you have experienced tacitly or directly, by and with, your father.

Celebrate your father for teaching you kindness by being thoughtful and gracious, patience by being gentle and understanding. Celebrate your father for teaching you honesty by keeping his promises to his family even at the expense of disappointing others. Celebrate your father for teaching you courage by living unafraid with faith; justice by being fair and equitable with everyone. Celebrate your father for teaching you obedience to God's word by precept and example as he reads and prays daily with his family.

If your father isn’t functioning as the king God has created him to be, pray that the Holy Spirit will arrest him and enlighten him to the love and wonders of the grace of God. If your relationship with your father is strained, Malachi 4:6 (NAS) gives you a promise, “He will restore the hearts of the fathers to {their} children and the hearts of the children to their fathers” Celebrate your father. He is still someone you can look up to.

Have a Purpose Driven Day. P.S. Always remember, worship is a lifestyle, not a momentary experience.

Rev. Craig A. Brown is the President/CEO of Word-Song Ministries and Ministry Solutions Group. To schedule a ministry or consultation appointment, please contact him at revcab@comcast.net.