Sunday, June 19, 2016

A Call to ALL FATHERS



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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

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