Thursday, 20 December 2007

• Without Leadership

      I didn't get to really have a father as I grew up...and in this is way I was short changed by my father that I've never really understood. Today I found a bit of what I was missing and understood that I had missed out on it.

      This is not to say "boo hoo" my daddy never loved me or a cry for pity, just a reflection of how we miss out when our father's are not present. When I was 10 my family broke up. My dad had been in a downward spiral since he decided to gamble to try and bring us out of debt. Needless to say it only put us further into debt. Maybe a year...two years later He was in adultery with a woman he worked with. My dad had lost his faith, his family and his respect. I don't hate him for it, but I now understand a bit more of how a father is a vital part of a family.

      I lacked leadership, a father to show me how to be a man as life and God requires of me. Despite what our culture would tell us-> women and men are exactly the same despite physiology. But the more I study the Word the more I realize that in reality there is a distinct difference in our roles and responsibilities

      I needed to learn to speak up, engage people with confidence, to love my wife sacrificially, to look for a wife centered in the Gospel and to keep my body pure for her.

      Though I learned a lot by trial, and of course my mother did all she could to raise me well, just as a mother can only be so much for me, there's something only a father help meld into a child's character, especially for young men.
  
      With that said, here is a link to a very insightful message from Al Mohler entitled "Being Men and Raising Men."

  http://www.sovereigngracestore.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=A1305-01-51

  Without a godly father's guidance many of us have no real direction of how to be men in this world. At least it’s difficult learn that. I hope the link helps.

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