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  • How Men Should Lead their Families –Part 2

    How Men Should Lead their Families –Part 2

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    Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. 21 Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged (Col 3:19, 21).

    Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 6 4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord (Eph 5:25-33; Eph 6:4).

    Contrary to feminist beliefs, men are needed in the home and in their families.

    In Part 1, I wrote about a Christian man’s vital role as God’s representative in the family. Today I will address his responsibilities to love, discipline, protect, serve, encourage, inspire, pray for, and lead his family. A man should be a “gentle warrior” for his family, rather than a passive, weak and popular dad (Beeke, P23). It all starts by loving our wives, just as Christ loved the Church:

    1. Love your wife and the mother of your children. Remember “Happy wife, happy life”! Both are clichés, but true ones: the best way for you to love your children is to love their mother. That is Paul’s main command to husbands (Col 3:19). And then, just to answer the question of how to do this, the Apostle Paul adds, “as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” (Eph 5:25; Col 3:19). So, brother in Christ, love your wife. Sacrifice and provide for her, cherish her, just as you love your own body. Give up your own comforts for her.

    Joel Beeke fleshes out a husband’s love in concrete terms,

    “Give her your thoughts, your time, your talk, your tenderness, and your touch—but make sure you touch her heart before you touch her body. Stop measuring out your love in small handfuls according to what she has done for you lately. Start pouring out your love by the bucket according to the infinite riches of Christ’s love for you.”

    2. Be actively involved in each child’s life, and never have favourites. Remember, children spell love as TIME, and that doesn’t mean only ‘quality’ time. It’s everyday involvement that matters, like your presence beside the sport’s field and beside their sick bed. Lay down your life for each member of your family– even when they’re teenagers and no longer shower you with love and adoration! You’ll be richly rewarded at a future date!

    3. Discipline your children, and never have favourites in this either. Remember the root word for discipline is also “disciple”. So, disciple your children with honour, consistency, prayerful humility, and self-control, never in anger or vindictiveness. All discipline should be surrounded in love, just as God disciplines His children in love (Heb 12:6).

    4. Protect. I often joke with my daughters and say, “You can have your first date when you turn 30!” But they get the picture: I’m very protective, because I want them to have the best life with a godly spouse. Defending your family in the 21st century might well involve fighting, with great wisdom, the foreign godless ideologies being introduced into their schools, even “Christian” schools and churches. I’m convinced that if a father is a warrior for his family, he will raise young men and women who are better equipped to stand up to peer pressure and to stand by their own convictions.

    5. Serve. Your service can be in society at large (on your children’s school PTA or sports’ team), in your local church, and in your family. When they see that Dad is not above serving, they see what a Christian man really is. One day your girls will be looking for a man as a husband. Have your children seen a godly example in their home, or someone who expects to be served by others? And remember, the counterintuitive reality is that, as you serve, you often receive more benefits than you bestow on others (Acts 20:35). I can personally attest to this.

    6. Encourage. I suppose the opposite of encouragement is to exasperate, criticise, provoke, embitter and shame your children, leading them to believe that they are a disappointment to you and will never amount to anything worthwhile. This is why Paul repeatedly warns his readers who are fathers (Col 3:21 & Eph 6:4), not to exasperate or discourage their children. It is obviously a dangerous tendency that fathers have. It is vital to repent immediately if we find ourselves exasperating our children, as this harshness will have devastating consequences on our families.

    7. Inspire. Inspire your family by setting the bar high, rather than pulling your children down with discouragement. We often hear people say, “You can be anything you really want to be”, but we all know that is patently untrue. Opportunities and gifting differ tremendously, so it’s not loving to puff up our children with pride. However, we can inspire our children to be all that God has made them to be. So, the goal is not to try and make your children the same as you (“Johnny must be an engineer because Dad is an engineer”), or to hope that they choose an ‘impressive’ career, but rather to help them discover their gifting and inclination. Undoubtedly, where the grace and truth of the gospel permeates a society and a family, both men and women experience true opportunity and personal freedom to flourish.

    Just one warning: in a continent where education is seen as the route out of poverty, it is dangerous to think that academic education is everything. The last thing you want to raise is a godless, rich, materialistic professional. Keep the end in mind: the end goal is a godly, productive family that, under God, produces godly productive people, who produce godly, productive families that replicate themselves.

    8. Pray. One of the great privileges we have as Christians is to talk to our heavenly Father. Yes, He is ruling the universe, but He is also Immanuel, God with us (Matt 1:23). He has explicitly encouraged us to pray continuously, (1 Thes 5:17) because he cares for us (1 Pet 5:7) and loves us (Gal 2:20). This includes intercessory prayer.

    So, pray for yourself, your wife and your children constantly and in all circumstances. Implore God to be working in their lives, even when they might seem far away from him. Remember, He is the good Father who finds lost sheep (Luke 15:1-7), lost coins (Luke 15:8-10) and lost children (Luke 15:11-32). When your children grow up and increasingly go out into the world, and your face-to-face time with them wanes, your prayers can still go with them, because God is there. He hears and acts graciously on their behalf.

    9. Lastly Lead. Yes lead, whatever our culture says about men taking the back seat and trashing our masculinity. Leading is active, rather than passive. Leading means setting the direction and priorities of your family. It means navigating the road ahead with energy, strength, conviction, courage and kindness. This is what God has designed men to do for their families and it is one of the main reasons for our God-given masculinity, which is different from a woman’s femininity.

    For fathers, the greatest temptation is to be absent, either by leaving your family and your responsibilities, or being present in the family physically, but absent emotionally and in everyday responsibilities: “I’m so tired. Please don’t bother me. I’ve got more important things to do.” These excuses are just abdication, similar to Adam’s abdication when Eve was engaging with the serpent. Although leadership can take many shapes to accommodate you and your wife’s character, gifting and jobs, nothing justifies abdicating your God-given role as leader of your home. Christ, the Great Shepherd himself, will hold us responsible for how we led, fed and watched over the families under our care (1 Peter 5:2-4).

    Leading does not mean that you have to be a lone ranger, making all the decisions and ruling like a tyrant. However, it does mean that you take responsibility for your family– spiritually, financially, and physically. A Christian marriage is not a power struggle between a husband and a wife for dominance, the patriarchy versus the matriarchy. The power struggle has already been resolved when the husband and wife both submit to God as the Lord of their home, and each undertakes to serve each other and the family in the way that God has outlined in His Word: Equal but different. It is not even a 50:50 job. It’s a 100%:100% responsibility, where each spouse works under the Lord to do what he/she has been called to do.

    At the end of the day, my greatest ambition as a man, a father and a husband is for my family to say:

    “We did not have a perfect Dad / husband, but we had a godly one, who served his family and pointed us to Christ. That is why we love the Lord Jesus and want to follow Him too.”

    To do this in our culture, we need to be courageous.

    References:

    • Beeke, Joel. How Men Should lead their Families. Reformation Heritage Books, Grand Rapids. 2014.

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  • Thanking our heavenly Father, and human dads too

    Thanking our heavenly Father, and human dads too

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    Series: Thankfulness, By Rosie Moore.

    This Sunday is Father’s day. For many people, it’s a day that brings up painful memories because of a less-than-perfect father. But as Christians, we should see our own earthly fathers through the lens of our great heavenly Father, who is the Father of the fatherless and protector of the widow (Ps 68:5). He is the Father who loved us so much that He gave up his firstborn Son, so that we too may be called his sons and daughters (1 John 3:1; 2 Cor 6:18). No wonder John exclaims,

    “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1) The Fatherhood of God is almost unbelievable!

    Jesus died, so that we can live with our Father in an eternal home that is being prepared for us (John 3:16; 14:2). Jesus the Son reveals the Father to us and is the only way to know God as Father (Matt 11:27). And even now, Jesus is interceding for us at our Father’s throne, holding securely onto us, even when we can’t hold onto Him ourselves (Heb 7:25; Rom 8:34). Do we grasp the Father’s love for us, not just in our heads, but in our hearts too?

    No fear when Father is near.

    Why would we not give thanks to God for this wonderful privilege of adoption? It is the reason why we have no need to fear again: “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba? Father!” (Rom 8:15). There’s no fear when our Father is near. And He is always near to us through His Spirit.

    God is our personal, loving, ever approachable Father, who has our very best in mind. Unlike our human fathers, who are flawed just like us, our heavenly Father’s ways are always upright and just (Deut 32:4). He is always faithful and does no wrong (Deut 32:4). In the security of this perfect Father, we can thank our human fathers for all they have done in our lives, even if they haven’t been perfect. In the embrace of our perfect Father, we can overlook their wrongs and weaknesses as human fathers.

    My own human father loves to read the final chapter of Packer’s book, Knowing God, over and over again. The chapter is about the unique Christian privilege of calling God our Father. And the reason that dad reads it so often is because he says that he’s apt to forget just how loved he is in Christ. Most of us are forgetful of this awesome reality. This is how Packer starts his chapter on the fatherhood of God,

    “You sum up the whole of New Testament if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.

    For everything that Christ taught, everything that makes the New Testament new, and better than the Old, everything that is distinctively Christian as opposed to merely Jewish, is summed up in the knowledge of the Fatherhood of God. ‘Father’ is the Christian name for God. Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption” (J.I. Packer, Knowing God)

    Thanking our Father.

    It’s only right that we direct our thanks at God the Father because:

    • He is the source of our existence and loved us before we were conceived (Ps 139:16; Eph 1:4).
    • He has adopted us into his family (Eph 1:5).
    • He provides for us (Matt 7:11).
    • He corrects and disciplines us (Hebrews 12:6).
    • He is the potter and we are the clay in his hands (Isa 64:8).
    • He loves us with an unfailing love (Ps 86:15; John 15:13).

    Things haven’t gone well in our household this week. Covid has struck, including my mom and dad. My dad, who is usually sprightly and brimming with energy, is looking frail and tired. But human dads are sons of God too, and I hope this devotion will remind him, and all fathers, of how much their heavenly Father loves and cares for them. Jesus described the heavenly Father to whom every son and daughter must ultimately look for everything:

    “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

    28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself (Matt 6:25-34)…

    “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:11).

    When we thank our Father for his good gifts; his faithfulness; his beautiful Creation; his generous provision; his loving correction and his amazing capacity to make all things work together for good, gratitude flushes the debris out of our eyes. We are able to see clearly how truly privileged we are. And when we give thanks to our Father, even for our sufferings, even in the midst of our sufferings, we are entrusting ourselves to our Father’s kindness and goodness. Hope and expectancy spring from knowing God as our caring Father.

    Our Father never slumbers.

    When we thank God as our Father, we are reminding ourselves that He is at work every minute of every day and night, fulfilling his sure and good purposes (John 5:17; Rom 8:28-31). Our Father will not let our feet slip, because he never slumbers nor sleeps (Ps 121:3).

    And so, Christian thankfulness is so, so much more profound than the world’s idea of positive thinking or good manners. Thankfulness takes the believer’s focus off ourselves, our grievances, our weaknesses and fears, even our genuine suffering, and turns our hearts towards God our Father. It is like the north star that leads us back home.

    Let’s thank our heavenly Father and our earthly fathers today.

    Let’s pray.

    Our Father in heaven,

    Even as we address you as Father, we can hardly fathom what a great and awesome privilege that is. Today, we thank you for creating us, and for giving us the opportunity to live in a right relationship with you, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Thank you, Father, for your undeserved grace, which covers us every day, even while we are sleeping.  Today we trust in your promise to be with us in everything–in the present and the future, through trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, sickness, danger, in life and even in death. You’ve said that nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, and we stand firm on that truth today.

    Father, we pray for your blessing on each father and grandfather in our church family. Give them the means to provide for their families during these difficult times. Help them to love you before all else, so that they may love their wives and be faithful to them. Help them to bring up their children to love and serve you with whole hearts. Thank you for the human fathers you’ve given us and help us to remember to thank them for all they’ve done for us.

    Heavenly Father, when fathers are discouraged, weak or tempted to sin, turn their hearts towards you, so they may have the strength they need to lead their families in your ways. May each father be convicted to read the Bible with their children and pray with them. Help Christian fathers to model your fatherly goodness, grace and discipline in their own homes and families. Do not allow them to exasperate or neglect their children, but give them the grace to be a blessing to their households.

    Most importantly, remind us all daily of our real identity and destiny in Christ:

    “I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother and sister too.” (Packer)

    In Jesus’s name, Amen.
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