6/17/18 "Be A Father To Your Child"

6/17/18

5 Minutes of Focus 

"Be A Father To Your Child"

Philemon 1:10-14 NLT

I find this passage of scripture to be very intriguing because it removes "almost" every excuse a man could have for not being a Father to his child.

Here, the Apostle Paul was in chains (bound, limited)...He was in prison (restricted) but  his manhood (the responsibility, the need to look out for his child was still intact).

So right there from prison, the Apostle Paul sent a letter of recommendation to those who had known Onesimus before, letting them know of his son's spiritual growth, giving them the okay to accept him back in and asking them to be kind to the seed he had produced. 

He was not selfish. Though he loved Onesimus dearly and would have loved to keep him there with him. Still, he chose to release him, to set his son up in a better opportunity, a better position than the one he, himself was currently in.

Sometimes being a man, being a Father means doing what you don't want to do.

Even if, it means like the Apostle Paul writing a letter and smoothing some things over with the people who will be around your child,  the people whose environment your child will share.

FOR SOMEBODY: This means writing a letter, typing an email and sending it to the mother of your child (even if, you don't want to or feel you were at fault and should have to).

DO IT...SMOOTH THINGS OVER...APOLOGIZE...Just to make things easier on the child, because believe it or not, that child can feel the tension that's coming from both sides.

SIDE NOTE: Hopefully, the mother will be mom enough to put her feelings aside.

You see, It's a weak man that only wants to see himself in his son and does not even TRY to impart something of greater value into the spirit of his son, into the spirit of his daughter, something for the next generation, something for the person they are indeed becoming.

Be A Father To Your Child..PAY their way (financially), but also PAVE their way by making some things right! 

Man, I'm Praying for YOU.

HaPpY FaTHer's DAY!

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy