BIBLICAL FATHERHOOD--THE GREAT NEED OF THE WORLD 6b. HE TEACHES AND TRAINS HIS CHILDREN (ROLE MODELING).

Role modeling our children is not a part time career. It's far too important for that.

Recently, while paying for gas at a local gas station, the cashier mentioned how deplorable it was that so many children in our country did not have fathers in the home or involved in their children's lives. The children are raised by single mothers who also go to work, at least part time, in order to survive. As a result of this demise of fathers, our country suffers and crime increases at an alarming rate.

As I left the gas station, the thought came to me. Where were this woman's children? Were they at the state school being influenced by educators she knows little to nothing about? Were they with class mates who also come from fatherless homes and absentee mothers who are working to make ends meet?

God knows that a nation's little ones, and older children, need to have parents who have the understanding that their children need good, wholesome, and godly role models imputing into their lives on a 24 hour daily basis.

Men, God never meant parenting to be part time job. We must encourage our wives in this truth. We must not be casual or apathetic towards role modeling our children for they are tomorrow's leaders.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell