Man as a Father and Dad

We need men who can be fathers and daddies at the same time. The challenges facing our society are so enormous particular in the whole issue of children. Many families now are led by single parents, particularly women. It is a pity to realize that we have many children born as a result of a father who sires them but is never there for them as a dad. Fathers sire, daddies take care of them. That is why you must be a father and a daddy.

Fathers have God's call to perpetuate the human race.

Genesis 1:26-28:  Then God said,  "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

The first purpose of man is given in the command "Be fruitful and multiply!"

God expects fathers to provide for his family.

This enables a mother to devote time to the love, care, and raising the children with his full support.  This is his God-given duty.

1 Timothy 5:8:  ":But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” Provision for the family includes physical, emotional, spiritual, material and further needs where leadership is required.

Fathers are required to discipline their children-- training; teaching, encouraging and correcting.
Hebrews 12:5-11 : “So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don't shrug off God's discipline, but don't be crushed by it either. It's the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects. God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best. At the time, discipline isn't much fun. It always feels like it's going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it's the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God”.(MSG)

God has designed fathers to be the leader in their marriage and the home.

This establishes the principles of order and Godly authority in the home and protects his wife and children as well as setting the example of godly living for all.

1 Corinthians 11:3:“In a marriage relationship, there is authority from Christ to husband, and from husband to wife. The authority of Christ is the authority of God”.(MSG)

Headship is leadership, guidance, direction, etc

God has designed fathers to love the mother of their children.
Ephesians 5:25-29 “Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church--a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor--since they're already "one" in marriage. No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church”,(MSG)

What a challenging standard God sets for husbands and fathers! All the children in the world have fathers but we have many that have had no daddies. Where are the daddies? What a world would be if all the children were brought up by their daddies. The cry is there and as men we have a responsibility to take our rightful roles. We can take up a challenging role of mentoring our young men who have been brought up by single mothers. I have been mentoring many and they needs men whom they can lean on.   

Let’s look to God for forgiveness where we have failed! He will help us rise to it!  

Ask Him to give you the strength!  You will be an honored father!