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Sons who have their dads in their lives do significantly better in school, have better social skills and self-esteem, and are more likely to say no to criminal behavior. When a child has a dad who says, 'I love you, I'm proud of you, and I'm going to stand with you and always be there for you,' it changes the life of that child forever. So if he is not there - or if he's there but not intentional in his training and leadership - his kids will be walking through their most important decisions without the one person who should be loving and leading them the most. A father's wise words and actions constantly reinforce the higher priorities and deeper truths of life. It's a dad's job to keep his children from having to learn the lessons of life the hard way. Kids watch their dads to find what's important. But kids naturally go to their dads for answers to their biggest questions: Who is God? Who am I? Am I loved? Am I a success? Do I have what it takes? What is my purpose in life? And if dads don't teach their kids the truth about these things, then the world will teach them lies. When your kids are young, they don't know who they are, what is right or wrong, or who God is. When the Bible states that 'the glory of children is their father' (Proverbs 17:6 NKJV), it is revealing an important dynamic of how God has wired the hearts and minds of children. Whereas moms are priceless, irreplaceable, and needed beyond measure, they were never designed to be men or to fill the role of a dad. How well are you representing your heavenly Father? To your son? To your daughter? That is your priceless purpose.Д«oth the Scriptures and statistics clearly communicate that there is no more influential person in the life of a child than his or her father. So if you want to know what God is like, then just look at Jesus. The Bible says that Jesus is the 'fullness' of the Godhead 'in bodily form' (Colossians 2:9). As God's Son, Jesus came to reveal the Father to us. And if you study the life of Christ, you discover that He always speaks the words, performs the works, and carries out the will of His heavenly Father. Jesus the Son willingly follows the leadership of the Father. Any time you hear the Godhead described, it is always God the Father first, then the Son, then the Holy Spirit. In Scripture, God as Father is the first Person of the Trinity. As our heavenly Father, God is the source from which all other things come into being. The word father means 'founder, source, chief, or leader.' The father of a nation, an invention, a company, or a movement is the one who helped bring it into existence. And sadly, the result is another generation deeply struggling to understand what God is really like. They rarely see it modeled in the media or at home. Right now, this generation doesn't know what true fatherhood looks like. And yet it is part of children's human nature to judge what they cannot see in God in light of what they can see in us. Naturally, all of us earthly fathers are unavoidably flawed. If my father would die for me, God would die for me.' On the other hand, if a child's earthly father is harsh or distant, what will the child think when someone says, 'God is your Father'? If my father means what he says, then God means what He says. 'If my earthly father loves and cares for me, then my heavenly Father loves and cares for me. When a child looks at his earthly father, he should be able to see these qualities of God.

Every human father is called to be a daily, physical representation of God to his children, to introduce Him to the next generation.

All fatherhood comes from Him (Ephesians 3:14-15).

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