If there is any message that I would give to fathers everywhere, it would be this: love your children.
Love your children by loving your wife.
Love your children enough to be there for them.
Love your children by providing for them as best you can. What law says they have to live in a million-dollar mansion, or wear expensive clothes? If you are honestly trying to meet their needs, they will know and appreciate it more than all the riches in the world.
Love your children by passing up that extra drink, or refusing that drug. Hasn't that stuff done enough damage?
Love your children by staying away from those sites on the Internet. You know what I am talking about!
Love your children by staying away from other women and clinging only to your wife. And if you are divorced, be careful of the women you have in your life. Like it or not, they will have an influence on your children.
Love your children by passing up that extra work at your job you don't really need to do. Work is what you do; not what you are.
Love your children by teaching them about their Heavenly Father. Do you think God loves His only Son any less than you love your own children? Yet He sacrificed Him for your sake - and the sake of your children.
Remember that you are the head of the family. That means you serve your wife and children, and not the other way around. If you doubt me, ask yourself this: exactly where in the Bible did Jesus demand that the disciples wash His feet?
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