DARE TO COMPARE
"Psalms 139:1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
What happens when I don't 'measure-up'? Do I abandon the plan? Do I change the plan? OR do I try to find where I went wrong and try again?
Father's Day rolls around yet one more time and we reexamine fathers and fatherhood. Did you know that the root word in father is the same as in pattern?
So we speak about our 'paternal' grandparents meaning grandparents on our fathers side of the family.
Titus is told this by his mentor:
"speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity"
I can be hard on myself as I evaluate my many failures and imperfections or I can take another look at THE PATTERN and decide to give it another try.
There may have been some skepticism or just plain unbelief in Philip's mind when he said:
"shew us the Father,
and it sufficeth us" . . .
The response: "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father"
We must take comfort that although the imperfect product that our lives appears to be; we are in fact following a perfect pattern.
Let us take heed to the command:
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" and let us CONTINUE moving forward not looking for the perfect dad but for the perfect day.
AMEN.
Proverbs 4:18 The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
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