Proverbs 17: 6: “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged and the glory of children is their fathers.”   Fatherhood is a priority position of leadership ordained and mandated by God Himself from the beginning.  Whatever happened to the idea that a father knows best?  In a few short decades, our culture has declined from a television show called Father Knows Best where the father was a wise, kind, moral, strong and loving head of the home to shows now where the father is seen as a dysfunctional wimp, absent, abusive, unfaithful and negligent leader.  There seems to be little glory left in fatherhood in our modern world.  We see the enemy attack the role of the father and try to move us to a genderless culture.  As usual, the culture has it all wrong and one thing is certain:  God has not changed His plan for the father, home and family.  He modeled fatherhood for us to follow and not change.

As a father and grandfather, I must look at my children and grandchildren to see if I am a worthy leader to earn their honor and glory.  Ask yourself this same question.  Fathers must never succumb to the cultural demotion of fatherhood.  Our spiritual leadership must produce the honor that our position deserves.  Our legacy lives on in our children and grandchildren and “faith must begin in the home.”  Every earthly father has a role model in God, the Father.  Being honored as a father begins with our honoring our heavenly Father.  Just as our culture tries to remove the loving gender of fatherhood, it also tries to remove the gender of our heavenly Father.  Jesus always prayed and acknowledged God as his Father and only one time in Scripture did He not refer or pray to God as his Father.  This was when He hung on the cross for us and said in Matthew 27:46: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  When those whom you lead hear you pray, Father, not just the word God, you are reflecting the glory of a child of God to your heavenly Father.  This is an important daily example to set and acknowledge the personal relationship you have with the one and only Father.  One thing is certain:  “Our Father Still Knows Best.”