"Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your souls and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads..." (The Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4-9). When Moses spoke these words, he was talking to the men of his day. Loving God and reminding others to love God by obeying his commandments was the father's job.
Well, it's not my forehead, but now my hairless head has another use: Billboard for God!
There are 364 days until Father's Day 2010. Live these days for God. Then, see what God does in your family. I think you'll be amazed at how satisfied you'll be with the gift of children who love God. It will be God's perfect gift to you.
So, be a billboard for God
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows" (James 1:17).
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