I just watched a movie called "Courageous." Its about a Christian police officer, who, after losing his nine-ear-old daughter, decides to make a covenant with God to rear his son in a godly manner. Some of his police officer friends joins him in this. A man whose prayer for a job God answered by giving a job in the officer's house (which was supposed to go to a man with the same first name) also became one of the signers. Their lives and the lives of their family and even their jobs are changed because of this covenant.
As a person whose father went abroad when I was very small, I can relate to those whose fathers were absent. Statistics show that fathers are so important to cildren's development. Fathers shows their boys how a man should act, and how to respect women and authority. A father shows girls the way a man should treat them, and that she should have self-respect and self-esteem. But this is not all. A father should teach his children integrity and proper moral values. And it is even better if that father is a godly man, so that he can teach his children about God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
A father's job is never done, even after his sons and daughters grow up. In the show "Courageous" the five men spoke about the relationships they had with their father when they were young. Most of them were not good, one did not even know his father. But however that relationship affected them personally and the way that they related to their wives and children. One of them had gotten a girl pregnant at high school and had left her to rear the child (who was now four year old) by herself. But aftrer signing this covenant, he contacts the mother of his child and starts the process of building a relationship with her and his daughter.
Fathers, its time to stand up to your responsibly as fathers.
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