Maximum Husband and Father

Psalm 128:1-4 (Today’s New International Version)

Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in obedience to him. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Yes, this will be the blessing for the man who fears the LORD. 

This psalm shows that to be God’s kind of husband and father, you must be a man that fears God. Appropriate fear of God makes a man an unusual blessing to his wife and children. The fear (reverence) of God will be the ground out of which the man’s positive influence will grow and the basic reason a man’s family will arise and call him blessed.

Romans 8:15-17 (New King James Version)

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. 

The Bible says that you have no cause to be in bondage to the negative fear of God. God now is the ultimate and compassionate Father Who is the maximum husband and Father Who will give us His grace to function to the fullest as husband and father.

Colossians 2:20 (New Living Translation)

You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world? 

As with Moses and Abraham, a godly Christian chooses to put God’s will before everything else, including his own feelings and desires.

Ephesians 1:17-19 (New Living Translation)

Asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. 

It is prayer that connects us to God, and through prayer God Himself inspires us to comprehend His majesty and glory. It is He who turns on the light in the darkness of our hearts. He provides illumination in our inner man.

If we are to understand His splendor by which we fulfill our responsibilities on this earth, prayer is the key, the link, the channel by which God’s wisdom, strength, and ability flow through us to our families.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (New Living Translation)

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. 

Develop the attitude that God is speaking directly to you as you read the Scriptures. The Bible is God’s book; it reveals His attributes, His works, His concerns, His will, His intentions, His plans, His desires for His people, and His design for the world that rejects Him. See everything in the Scripture as an invitation to enter into a deeper relationship with your majestic, infinite Father and Redeemer.

Say this before reading your Bible:

Father I thank You for Your Word. I thank You for Jesus and the price He paid. I thank You for the Holy Spirit, Who is my guide. I believe I receive the light of revelation today as I read Your Word. Speak to me. Change me. I will be a doer of the Word I hear. Amen.