How To Be A Great Dad

Pearls of Biblical Wisdom for Believers and Fathers

Season 3 Episode 38 This podcast has three major points to it. # 1 Why being a great dad is so important # 2 Why being a great dad is so hard # 3 What are some of the ways you can be a great dad.

My son Aaron and I interact together on these three points. I am so glad we were able to do this podcast together because he is a dad with three children (one of them a newborn baby) who understands something of the reality of these three points. For instance point number two: being a dad is not easy -- there are many challenges involved that many times come at the most awkward times. Aaron shared with his mom and I when he arrived this morning to do the recording that he and his wife Laura were up in the middle of the night with the newborn baby and they were seeking to resolve some challenges with their son also. I am so thankful to the Lord that he is speaking from his heart to other father's hearts in this podcast about these three points that require a lot of grace from God to understand and apply. At the beginning of the podcast we play the hymn: Take My Life and Let It Be. I chose this hymn because in my mind's eye I picture fathers in prayer singing and saying to God: "take my life, my hands, my voice, my will, my intellect, my heart" so that I can bring up the children you entrusted to me in the nurture and admonition of your Son's life. Every father must exchange his life for the Lord Jesus Christ's life if the responsibilities of fatherhood are to be accomplished. Apart from Jesus Christ life through us we do not have the ability to be a great dad.

2Co_3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. The Lord Jesus said: "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." John 15:5

Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. From the start of this podcast ministry this has been the theme verse. Whenever I think of it or quote it I think of it in this way: bring up children in the nurture and admonition of the the LORD'S LIFE !!!!!

To be successful as a dad you must constantly live in the reality of Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. As a father you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. (Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.)

May God bless you dads with wisdom and understanding because you understanding the greatness of God and through the greatness of His Son Jesus Christ it is possible for you to be a great dad. Psalm 115:1 "Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake."