Daddy day! We need to give honor, respect, appreciation, and LOVE where it is due. Ladies first we learn in ‘politese’, Mother’s day respectively comes before Daddiy’s day, no? Be polite, be Loving, be Christian.
You may have noticed that I write (loving with a capital “L”.) There are so many reasons. How do you compare the emotions feelings for a parent, other half, Significant other, siblings to a friend/colleague/co-worker, Coach etc.
I use this term ‘Daddy’ because The Word says in Matthew 23:9 “Do not call anyone on Earth ‘Father,’ for you have one Father, and He is in Heaven.”
Imagine what you’re life would be like if you completely trusted God as your loving Father. These Bible verses on the Father’s love will help!
Abba!
Jesus showed us that the Almighty God is our Abba Father! Our dear Papa! (Mark 14:36). The Holy Spirit lives in the heart of all of us who follow Jesus and he intercedes for us from deep within, crying out, “Abba Father” Romans 8:15; Galatians 6:4
Our image (concept) of God is the most important thing about us. It determines our relationship with God, others, and ourselves. Many people we talk with need healing in their image of God. Do you? Your answer to this question will tell you: Can you look back over your whole life and say, “My Father God has always been good to me.”? If not, your heart is hurting and your image of God needs healing.
“[The Father] guarded him as the apple of his eye.” Deuteronomy 32:10
“A Father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads forth the prisoners with singing.” Psalm 68:5-6
“O Lord you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are the work of your hands.” Isaiah 64:8
“Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:4
“Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” Matthew 6:8
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” Matthew 6:26
“If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:11
“Your Father in heaven is not willing that any one of these little ones should be lost.” Matthew 18:14
In Matthew 23:1–12, Jesus is denouncing the Jewish scribes and Pharisees for rejecting Him as their Messiah, in particular for their hypocrisy in elevating themselves above others with titles such as “teacher” and “master.” The Jewish teachers affected those titles because they supposed that a teacher formed the man or gave him real life. They sought, therefore, to be called “father,” as if they were the source of truth rather than God. Christ taught that the source of all life and truth is God, and no one ought to seek or receive a title that properly belongs to Him. No one should be as revered as God is.
This denunciation is equally relevant today. In no way should any person look up to, follow, or elevate a human leader in any religious or church organization above Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Head of the Church, which is His body. He alone is the author of our salvation, source of comfort in difficulties, and strength to live the Christian life. He is the only One to whom our prayers should be directed. No one else has the right to say, “Look to me to meet your spiritual needs.” Jesus’ warning against calling men “father” is a caution against ostentation, pride, and hypocrisy.
As we have shared The Word is complex, mind you – I did not say ‘complicated.’ How if The Word says in Deutronomy 28.
“Honour thy father and thy mother” is one of the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew Bible. The commandment is generally regarded in Protestant and Jewish sources as the fifth in both the list in Exodus 20:1–21, and in Deuteronomy (Dvarim) 5:1–23.
I decided to study further and found this out: A transliteration of the Aramaic term abba also appears three times in the Greek New Testament of The Bible. Each time the term appears in transliteration it is followed immediately by the translation ho pater in Greek, which literally means “the Father.” In each case it is used with reference to God.
What I have done is to utilize father (Earthly) versus Father (Heavenly.) Yes, God caused you to be, but for some reason that we have discussed, through your parents.
We can see so much in The Word regarding both parents, so Happy parents day!
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 108 helpful votes HelpfulNot Helpful
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Colossians 3:21
“Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
Proverbs 13:24
“The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.”
Proverbs 29:15
“Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.”
Proverbs 29:17
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
Colossians 3:20
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:12
And we focus on some truisms for fathers:
Y’all father’s, from God you have come.
Your hard times, build you.
Your tough times, strengthen you.
Your trials, form you.
Your tears, clear your vision.
Your cries, build up your voice for praising, prayer, thanksgivings and laughter.
When down, we learn the advantages of being up.
When tempted, driven to despair, tried, tempted – we learn Where to lean, Who to follow, Who wipes our tears away.
Cherish it, love it, hold it, act it – Amen
In Heaven there is NO gender. Amazingly in The Word, ALL we have seen are spiritual beings. Here on Earth, differences in gender were Created for procreation. In Heaven, God makes ALL.
We have a Home to head toward. Do it with pride. There is a location, a reason, a season for our plenty, Amen
Previously, we pointed out a few reasons we are blessed to be ‘Male’ – heads of households as God has directed; the differences between Male and Female, in the Earthly families in His-story, it was noted the ‘differences’ between gender. In creating, first came
Exodus 20:12
In the 5th period, creatures were created to fill The sky and water. If we think, there was a period that all came to be. In seeing that it was ‘good’, Man was created in The sixth period. Man has developed and continues to, it is my prayer that we progress as He wills, Amen. Man was created in The Form of our Father, Amen
On/In the seventh period He ‘rested’, we are in this 7th period. Look around you, there is not ‘much’ different! Yes, we ‘create’ with the knowledge we were given. More importantly, things are at rest. God rests in His Creation, no new things are ‘created.’ Earth is as Earth does! Look around: Mating of species, creating hybrids in animals, even ‘technology’ it is as we have ‘figured’ it to be.
I am stepping of path, but Man together sought to build the tower at Shiloh, God seeing this and knowing that Man had a ‘oneness’ about him.
“Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole Earth.”
Genesis 11:1-8
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/continent/
“From Whom every family in Heaven and on Earth derives its name.”
Ephesians 3:15
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.space.com/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html
When I studied the continents, I realized the shapes were consistent with one body.
The second major phase in the break-up of Pangaea began in the Early Cretaceous (150–140 Ma), when the minor supercontinent of Gondwana separated into multiple continents (Africa, South America, India, Antarctica, and Australia).
After Pangea broke, due to the tectonic plates, and volcanic eruptions, it was split into two parts called Laurasia, and Gondwanaland. 100 million years ago those parts split apart into the seven continents the earth is made of today.
At this time most of the dry land on Earth was joined into one huge landmass that covered nearly a third of the planet’s surface. The giant ocean that surrounded the continent is known as Panthalassa. The movement of Earth’s tectonic plates formed Pangaea and ultimately broke it apart.
You may ask what this has to do with father’s day. We are all one! From The Aborigenes in Australia to The Jewish, Palestinians, Africans…
“One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” Ephesians 4:6
“So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
Romans 12:5
I will ease your pursuit of fact: https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-equality/
To throw a pebble in the morass, The statement in the American independence statement “All men are created equal” tosses quite a bit into the pot. Abraham. One of the earliest mentions in The Bible, we can ask where he as the father of many nations was.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/november/bible-never-says-all-men-are-created-equal.html
This has covered many topics, but you are fathers. Have a blessed Fathers day and season to follow.