We’ve made it to the day when we will have completed a third of this devotional. It’s quite enlightening to get to hear from Keith Rose as we go through this devotional provided through Covenant Eyes within the Bible App. It’s important to go beyond focusing on just us to choosing joy in order to live selflessly and become the dads that our wives, our kids, and this world need us to be! Ever tried to solve a problem by yourself or in your own strength and then discovered it got messy and in some cases even destructive? Ever leaned in on God and put your trust in Him instead and came out the other side filled with joy and realized the abundance that comes through Him?

Let’s turn to our devotional for today and grab hold of what it has to say as we continue to make our way through Psalm 68:

Fallen Heroes: A Devotional for Dads Who Struggle With Porn

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This is a reading plan for dads who want to quit porn. It was written by Keith Rose, a content creator at Covenant Eyes. Fallen Heroes looks at Psalm 68 to re-orient your perspective and teach you how to break free. It challenges you to think about heroism in a completely different way.

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Scripture for Today’s Devotional:

God’s Word is a love letter to us! God’s Word is an owner’s manual for how to live life! God’s Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our paths! So let’s focus on turning to God’s Word first to help us no matter what we are facing! Let’s be the dads who choose to pursue and follow God who goes before us! Let’s be the dads who choose to follow God through the wilderness of life! Let’s be the dads who go with God through the pillar of fire at night or the cloud by day and won’t try to go it alone without His presence! Let’s be the dads who choose to walk out our lives with God and trust Him who gives us what we need through abundant showers! Let’s be the dads who don’t try to go through or fight this battle on our own but instead choose to go with God who refreshes us when we are weary! Let’s be the dads who settle into the abundance and inheritance of God! Let’s be the dads who settle into the bounty of God! Let’s be the dads who trust God to provide for our needs!

Today’s devotional has been provided to us by Covenant Eyes.

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)

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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
“Obliterated and Messy vs Abundance“

• Like watching superhero movies? Ever noticed that even when they win there tends to be a lot of collateral damage?
• Today’s devotional shares just such an example when it shares:
  • “At the end of the Superman movie, Man of Steel, Superman and General Zod are battling it out over the city of Metropolis. Superman saves Metropolis, of course, but in the process, Metropolis is nearly obliterated.“
• Ever tried to save your family and ended up in the middle of a huge mess?
• Today’s devotional speaks to such an example as follows:
  • “As a dad, you know you’re not Superman. You know that your best efforts to save your family are going to result in havoc like Superman’s bust-up of Metropolis. Our best efforts are always messy. “
• Let’s be the dads who lean in and look to God to be the superhero because we know that when He saves people, it is with abundance rather than destruction, obliteration, and a mess!
• Let’s be the dads who turn to God who is perfect and trust Him because we know that “God’s perfect salvation covers our failures“!
• Let’s be the dads who turn to God to help clean up our messes and fix them in spite of our own best efforts!
• Let’s be the dads who realize how messy things can get when we try to do the right thing!
• Let’s be the dads who just because it is hard don’t give up on our wives, kids, and world!
• Let’s be the dads who “don’t despair over the mess“!
• Let’s be the dads who put more trust in God because we know we have our own shortcomings and so don’t need to live lives of or in fear!
• Let’s be the dads who trust God because we know that “God is in control“!
• Let’s be the dads who trust God because we know that “His salvation is perfect and covers a multitude of failed heroic efforts“!
• Today’s devotional brings us to today’s verses and speaks to it this way:
  • “In verses 7-10 we see that God doesn’t barely save people. He doesn’t save to people and leave the city a smoking wasteland. God saves abundantly. He showers grace upon grace. God’s heroic salvation MORE than covers your messy attempts to guide your family.“
• Today’s devotional closes with the following thought and ideas to reflect upon:
  • “The call to hero-dads is to follow their savior who saves abundantly—perfectly. The call to hero-dads is to be honest about their mistakes. The call to hero-dads is to point their families to the only hero big enough to handle the messiness of life: Jesus.“
  • “Reflection:”
    • “1. Can you think of a time you tried to fix something only to end up with a mess? It could be a project around the house—or a relationship.“
    • “2. Reflect on the “fix” that Jesus worked through his death and resurrection. Despite the messiness of our sin, he saves abundantly!“