Just For Dads: Be A Positive Christian Role Model – Day 5
I found a devotional that was a bit longer and that sounded powerful as a message so that it could help us learn and become the dads God created and purposed for us to be. So I chose “Just For Dads: Be A Positive Christian Role Model” because, over 21 days, we will get to read and learn about how to be a positive Christian role model for our family! Over 21 days, we will get to learn about topics like: “self-discipline, love, patience, and much more“! This devotional will not only help us be the dads but it will also help us “in our day-to-day life to show our children what it truly means to be a role model and follower of Christ in every sense“.
Let’s check out our scriptures for today’s devotional:
‘Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ‘
Lamentations 3:22-23
When do you turn to God’s Word? When do you meditate on God’s Word? Do you realize the benefits of spending time reading God’s Word? Do you realize when you have missed it? God’s Word is active and alive! Let’s choose to meditate on it daily! Let’s be the dads who get up and get ready in God’s Word so that we can step into our days strong and courageous!
Let’s be the dads who make time to receive God’s great love for us! Let’s be the dads who spend time basking in God’s great love for us! Let’s be the dads who receive God’s compassions that never fail! Let’s be the dads who live in the reality that God’s grace and mercy are new every morning! Let’s be the dads who receive God’s truth and walk in His faithfulness! Let’s be the dads who receive the example from God and choose to live as living examples of our Heavenly Father by loving our wives, our kids, and the people God brings into our day! Let’s be the dads who receive the example from God and choose to live as living examples of our Heavenly Father by being compassionate to our wives, kids, and the people God brings into our day! Let’s be the dads who receive the example from God and choose to live as living examples of our Heavenly Father by being faithful to our wives, kids, and people God brings into our lives!
Today’s devotional has been provided by Zondervan!
Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me:
(check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)
For more information, please visit Just For Dads: Be A Positive Christian Role Model | Devotional Reading Plan | YouVersion Bible for more details.
Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
“This entrepreneur’s lesson“
- Let’s be the dads who understand authority!
- Let’s be the dads who know whose authority we are under!
- Let’s be the dads who realize that the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord!
- Let’s be the dads who remember that “there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.“
- Let’s be the dads who walk in obedience to God’s authority and those He has given authority to for we know that “whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.“
- Let’s be the dads who grab onto the fact that “Human Authority, Instituted By God“!
- Let’s be the dads who live under God’s authority and do what we have to do for the glory and purposes of God!
- Let’s be the dads who even when we face adversity persevere and trust God because we know that “God has been faithful to us in the past, and he’ll be faithful in the future. He will provide.“
- Let’s be the dads who grab hold of the reality of God’s faithfulness!
- Let’s be the dads who grab hold of the reality of God’s compassion!
- Let’s be the dads who grab hold of the reality of God’s love!
- Let’s be the dads who grab hold of the reality of God’s mercies that are new every morning!
- Are you struggling with something tough? Consider the story from today’s devotional found here: Just For Dads: Be A Positive Christian Role Model – Day 5
- Today’s devotional puts it this way:
- Let’s be the dads who walk in the truth that God was, is, and will always be faithful!
- Nothing can take away the love of God!
- ‘For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ‘ John 3:17
- ‘The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” ‘ Zephaniah 3:17
- Nothing can take away from the love of God | The Daily Prayer Warrior (wordpress.com)
- “God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” 1 John 4:16
- “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Romans 8:35-37
- “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
- Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ | Desiring God
