A Call to ALL FATHERS

The day on which we celebrate Fathers

Is upon us once again

Father's Day they have named it

Though for some it brings great pain.

Many are the missing fathers

From the church and from the home

And the clarion call goes out to all

Return, return to your family throne.

For no one can fill a father’s place

In the life of that precious offspring

No mother, no granny or aunt

Can fatherhood to that child bring.

God’s design has always been

For a father, a mother and their children

To form the bedrock of our society

And to raise godly seed through them.

However, if father or mother is absent

Then there will be much fall out

And this idea of a one-parent family

Is really nothing to shout about.

Today as we celebrate Father's Day

There may be much to gripe about

But Let us not castigate all fathers

There are still some who show some clout.

So consider the FACT of each father

Without him family could not be

Father is still God’s centerpiece

On which to build our society.

I do not mean to less count mothers

I really don’t intend that all

Mothers must assist the fathers

This has been and is still God’s call.

Fathers are not ANOTHER means

Whereupon mothers are the first

Fathers ought to head up their families

But God’s design has been reversed.

  

There on the block we find them

There they lime away their life

Often graduating to the prisons

Leaving their families in loads of strife.

TRUSTWORTHINESS is found in fathers

Who still command their posts

The home is still their first defense

These fathers today we toast.

Not all fathers are bad; some are good

Though people would have us think otherwise

Disabuse your mind of such a thought

That is Satan’s ominous disguise.

HOME beckons to all those fathers

Who are abandoning their seed

God is calling upon them today

To return to their family and lead.

Mothers must not be the primary leaders

Of the children and in the home

Fathers, that is our God-given role

We were meant to set the tone.

For ETERNAL things are at stake

And society’s moral fabric wears thin

There is a breach that is ever widening

The task of mending must urgently begin.

RIGHT the wrong we’ve help to make

Confessing we’ve played the greater part

For God has given us the defining role

Acknowledging this is the place to start.

START now! Now is the time to commence

In the home, the church and the village

To make a fatherly difference in every child

And stop the excessive spillage.

Kudos to Fathers who are Fathers

To do greater and better we still urge

Encouragement to fathers yet to start

All fathers are needed to rid us of the scourge.

  

The scourge that is destroying family

And wrecking the lives of our youth

The scourge that advances alternate unions

Departing from God’s established truth.

With the example of God our FATHER

And emulating His Fatherly care

Let us reach out to every single father

By starting with that father who is near.

Stewart Russell © 2016