2013 Father’s Day reflections

As a father I strive to be - 

·      Living in the fear of God

·      Seeing the way God would want me to see – myself, others, the world

·      Doing the way He would want me to do

·      Speaking the way He would want me to do

·      Going where He would want me to go

·      Touching what He would want to me to touch

·      Loving what He loves

·      Smiling when He would want me to

·      Enjoying what He gives

·      Crying when He Himself would

·      Mourning for what He would

·      Praying when He prompts me to

·      Worshipping Him

·      Adoring Him

·      To be the best person He designs me for

·      A father to the fatherless – some whom my Father God brought my way

·      A father figure to people who work with me

·      A father figure for the job I am assigned to lead

·      Loving my fellow beings

·      Loving my country

·      Loving my world

·      Loving my God, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the LORD who reigns forever and ever

·      Never forgetting I am nothing but a ’nothing’ – a sinner saved by grace and is being transformed into His image by His resurrection power

·      Witnessing in my life His saving grace (till I die!)

What would I want to pass on as a father and a grandfather?

• All of what I strive for (as above)
• No greater joy than to know that my children (and my grand children) are in the Truth
• A life system that encompasses the God factor – the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; God is my helper, my provider, my protector, my strength, my glory and the lifter of my head, my God reigns. My Father. My Father who art in heaven.
• Value systems driven by what is right, true and just and sincere hard work
• Value systems that are to become our legacy

My own personal assessment

• Not having attained my goal
• Still at the beginning of the path of my life’s journey I mapped out for myself
• Some years ago my better half and joined a life revision camp in Jim Corbett Park in the year 2005, where I summarized my better half’s sharing as it is still so true for our lives even after so many years

My ‘old name’ I said is ‘Rising and Falling’

‘Un-stable’ is me as the shifting sand

(What a reassurance when being told

That normal Christian life is also such so!)

My ‘new name’ I want it to be – ‘stable’

And I was told that ‘stability’ comes

When ‘rooted and established’ in Him alone

Miles to go before I sleep ……….