[Discoveries] 09-09-07 Honor your father - part 2

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/*Honor your father ... -- Exodus 20:12*/

So honoring our fathers is really about honoring God -- honoring His 
choice for our lives. For some of us it comes easy. For some of us it is 
an act of faith.

Here, as in so many other places in life, we have rich opportunities for 
God - because this is a place where many of us are broken inside, and 
need the Lord's touch.

There was a time, to be honest with you, that I feared and hated my dad. 
But underneath all that fear and anger was a little boy who needed the 
soothing touch of Jesus, and the healing truth from Him about my dad, 
about me, about life. As that comfort and truth flows in, I grow up 
inside, and I see my dad for who he really was: courageous, generous, 
insightful and intelligent. My dad was unpretentious but that didn't 
stop him from bucking the crowd and standing alone. He had a delightful, 
creative sense of fun that almost nobody understood. He raised his sons 
to think for themselves and stand up for what is right. He experienced 
enormous pain, but I never heard him complain about the cards he was 
dealt. He made mistakes, but, as he grew older, he mellowed enough to 
admit many of his faults and seek help for them. But he was more than 
that: He was my father. When I was a little boy I thought he was 
stronger than anyone. I thought he was eight feet tall. I thought nobody 
could harm us as long as my dad was with us. Nobody would dare try.

If you don't struggle to honor your dad, then skip over what I have to 
say. But if you do, please know that the day will come when you will 
feel like throwing your arms around your dad and thanking him, faults 
and all, for being used by God to bring good into your life. The damage 
dad did will be undone. But to good will endure forever.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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