Father's Day: Going to War

   It’s Father’s Day. It is the day we honor our fathers’. Fathers have a big responsibility. They are to lead their family, be an example for others, and to live up to the ideas of what a father is in their respective cultures.

   The movie War Room is a story about Tony and Elizabeth Jordan. Tony Jordan is a man who is in good shape, has a great job, makes a lot of money, has a big house, a shiny new car, and a daughter. He is a man who seems to have it all together to any outsider. But, Tony is not close with his wife or his daughter. He is on the brink of making some bad life choices because he wants what he wants when he wants it. He thinks that he deserves all the good things in life.

   Meanwhile his wife gets verbally and emotionally abused. She thinks Tony may be seeing another woman. Their daughter, Danielle, lives in a house where her parents fight all the time. Her father seems to not care about her at all.

This is a broken home. We could point fingers at just one person but sometimes it is not just one persons’ fault. Yes, it is the father’s job to be the head of the household. It is the father’s job to be a Godly example. But, in this household no one is leaning on God.

   There are many different households in this world. Each household is run in a different way because everyone is different. That is just how God made us, unique. However, every household can be fixed if the people in the household lean on God. That means spending daily time with God in his word and praying to him.

   Every man, woman, and child needs to trust God in all situations because God does have a plan. Even when it seems hopeless, even when it seems like you can go down any farther, and even when it seems like God has crossed your line of safety remember that he is our hope. He is the one we look up to and he crossed that line just so that we would have faith in him.

   So, are you willing to lean on God through any situation? Will you pray and trust that God has a plan for all of your battles? Men, are you willing to step up and be the Godly example your family needs?

   Proverbs 3:5-6, Titus 2:6-7, Philippians 4:6-7