Post by TheFirebrand on May 23, 2013 9:13:00 GMT -6
In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them. Psalm 22:4
A husband and wife on vacation at a lake didn’t notice their three?year?old son Billy wandering toward the dock to investigate a boat. He tried to stretch his short legs from the dock to the boat, but didn’t quite make it—and fell into six?feet?deep water. The splash brought Dad running. He dove into the murky water, groping with his arms and legs trying to find Billy. His lungs nearly bursting, he pushed toward the surface—and touched Billy, whose arms were locked around a piling four feet underwater. Dad pried him loose, and they hit the surface together, gasping for air. When they had recovered,
Dad asked little Billy what he was doing hanging onto that piling. Billy’s answer: “Just waitin’ for you, Dad.” When his life was on the line, Billy knew his dad would come through. It’s true that fathers bear heavy responsibility for the welfare and protection of their children as well as leading the family. We parents have a tough assignment, especially when the marital covenant falls under attack, but most of us wouldn’t have it any other way. Most Christian couples marry with the expectation of trials and hardships. They also trust in God to help them always find their way back to each other in times of despair. The most difficult, important, and wonderful task of all is to live by example and to teach our children to trust in God even while they grow up as witnesses to the many trials their parents go through and stay together through it all.
This incident could have taken a turn for the worst, and little Billy might have been lost. It would have had a great and terrible impact on the mother and father, tho it would still not have changed God’s own will for marriage and His covenant. The devils seeks and grabs any opportunity, any tool, and influences any thoughts or behaviors which he can put to use and work to his advantage in order to destroy what God has blessed.
It is our call as Christian couples to maintain a strong, spiritual relationship with God, with each other and with our children. To build a wall around our family and make ourselves impregnable against the enemy …
With the same faith and trust this child had in his own father, we ought have in our Heavenly Father.
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A husband and wife on vacation at a lake didn’t notice their three?year?old son Billy wandering toward the dock to investigate a boat. He tried to stretch his short legs from the dock to the boat, but didn’t quite make it—and fell into six?feet?deep water. The splash brought Dad running. He dove into the murky water, groping with his arms and legs trying to find Billy. His lungs nearly bursting, he pushed toward the surface—and touched Billy, whose arms were locked around a piling four feet underwater. Dad pried him loose, and they hit the surface together, gasping for air. When they had recovered,
Dad asked little Billy what he was doing hanging onto that piling. Billy’s answer: “Just waitin’ for you, Dad.” When his life was on the line, Billy knew his dad would come through. It’s true that fathers bear heavy responsibility for the welfare and protection of their children as well as leading the family. We parents have a tough assignment, especially when the marital covenant falls under attack, but most of us wouldn’t have it any other way. Most Christian couples marry with the expectation of trials and hardships. They also trust in God to help them always find their way back to each other in times of despair. The most difficult, important, and wonderful task of all is to live by example and to teach our children to trust in God even while they grow up as witnesses to the many trials their parents go through and stay together through it all.
This incident could have taken a turn for the worst, and little Billy might have been lost. It would have had a great and terrible impact on the mother and father, tho it would still not have changed God’s own will for marriage and His covenant. The devils seeks and grabs any opportunity, any tool, and influences any thoughts or behaviors which he can put to use and work to his advantage in order to destroy what God has blessed.
It is our call as Christian couples to maintain a strong, spiritual relationship with God, with each other and with our children. To build a wall around our family and make ourselves impregnable against the enemy …
With the same faith and trust this child had in his own father, we ought have in our Heavenly Father.
www.facebook.com/eternalcovenant