A Fathers love

This week in class we talked about the influence a fathers presence has on his children. I love this topic because it brings great joy for me to be able to share about my own experiences with my father growing up and the things he has taught me. My father is such a gentle soul and a constant light in my life. He taught me how to fish, he taught me how to wash a car, check the oil, he taught me how to use a fire extinguisher and how to fold my clothes. He taught me so many things growing up for my life for the future too. he taught me how to be respected and be respectful, he taught me how to be a good listener. without even knowing it he taught me what i wanted in a future relationship. There are so many people out there are have already or are growing up without a father in the home. People like my husband. statistics show that young men who grow up without a father are more likely to get involved in dangerous activity like drugs and gangs. Young women who grow up without a father are more likely to be sexually active earlier. This does not include those with father-figures in their lives. Fathers are desperately needed to help raise their children, children look up to their fathers as a guide, a protector and a comfort. Im going to share with you a speech on the topic of fatherhood from a movie i love called Courageous.

“As a law-enforcement officer, I’ve seen firsthand the deep hurt and devastation that fatherlessness brings in a child’s life. Our prisons are full of men and women who lived recklessly after being abandoned by their fathers, wounded by the men who should have loved them the most. Many now follow the same pattern of irresponsibility that their fathers did.

While so many mothers have sacrificed to help their children survive, they were never intended to carry the weight alone. We thank God for them. But research is proving that a child also desperately needs a daddy. There’s no way around this fact...I now believe that God desires for every father to courageously step up and do whatever it takes to be involved in the lives of his children. But more than just being there or providing for them, he’s to walk with them through their lives and be a visual representation of the character of God, their father in heaven.

A father should love his children and seek to win their hearts. He should protect them, discipline them and teach them about God.

He should model how to walk with integrity and treat others with respect and should call out his children to become responsible men and women who live their lives for what matters in eternity. Some men will hear this and mock it or ignore it.

But I tell you that as a father, you are accountable to God for the position of influence he has given you.

You can’t fall asleep at the wheel only to wake up one day and realize that your job or your hobbies have no eternal value but the souls of your children do. Some men will hear this and agree with it but have no resolve to live it out.

lnstead, they will live for themselves and waste the opportunity to leave a godly legacy for the next generation.

But there are some men who, regardless of the mistakes we’ve made in the past, regardless of what our fathers did not do for us, will give the strength of our arms and the rest of our days to loving God with all that we are and to teach our children to do the same, and, whenever possible, to love and mentor others who have no father in their lives but who desperately need help and direction.

I accept this responsibility, and it is my privilege to embrace it.

I want the favor of God and his blessing on my home.Any good man does.

So where are you, men of courage?

Where are you, fathers who fear the Lord?

It’s time to rise up and answer the call that God has given to you...”

I could not have said it more perfectly than this. Fatherhood is a blessing and a responsibility that many now choose not to take up and these people suffer the rest of their lives because of it. I love my father and i hope this was able to inspire.