LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER

Proverbs 1:8-9

Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

The next several chapters of Proverbs will be addressed to young people, though certainly we can apply them to ourselves regardless of our age.

With Father’s Day coming we are reminded of things our dads (and, of course, certainly, also our mothers) taught us when we were young – some good, some not so good; some through what they said, some through what they did. In spite of their own sin, however, God-fearing fathers teach their children to fear God (to respect and love him). They train their children in the way of the Lord. They teach them right from wrong. They explain what Jesus did for them and what they can do in response. Thank God for such fathers and their instruction. Continue to listen to and follow that instruction. God will bless all who do.

PRAYER: I thank you, heavenly Father, for the instruction you have given me in your Word. Help me use the same Word that someone used to instruct me to instruct others – to tell them about Jesus and to guide them in their living. Amen.