Today’s theme or topic is titled “It’s worth the waiting“! 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“.
Scripture from Today’s Devotional:
‘ As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.’
Psalm 42:1-6
God’s Word is alive and active and is available to speak into and over our lives daily and all the time! Let’s be the dads who are willing to stop, listen, learn, and live thanks to it!
Let’s be the dads who want more of God! Let’s be the dads who want to be in the presence of God! Let’s be the dads who are fueled by God! Let’s be the dads who are filled by God! Let’s be the dads who pour out our souls in order to bring God the praise, the honor, and the glory! Let’s be the dads who when faced with troubles take heart because we know that Jesus has overcome the world! Let’s be the dads who when faced with trials consider them pure joy because we know that it builds our faith, builds our perseverance and when the work has been completed we will be complete and lacking nothing! Let’s be the dads who when faced with anxiety cast our cares on God because He cares for us! Let’s bet the dads who hope in God, praising Him for our salvation!
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:
“It’s worth the waiting“
- Let’s be the dads who find mentors and mentees who can speak life, love, and experience into our lives!
- Let’s be the dads who are passionate and compassionate towards others!
- Let’s be the dads who are ok with any answer God gives us when we pray!
- Let’s be the dads who are ok with the answer of yes!
- Let’s be the dads who are ok with the answer of no!
- Let’s be the dads who are ok with the answer of wait for it!
- Let’s be the dads who just because we want something are ok with God’s answer and God’s perfect timing!
- Let’s be the dads who dwell in the wonder in those moments when we have to wait!
- Let’s be the dads who dwell in the hope in those moments when we have to wait!
- Let’s be the dads who are willing to wait because of the thrill we know will exist when we receive “what we’ve so desperately anticipated“!
- Let’s be the dads who consider this in relation to today’s scripture!
- Let’s be the dads who grab hold of the picture of the deer, panting, longing for something that can satisfy it!
- Let’s be the dads who grab hold of the reality of how our souls are panting, longing, for an intimate relationship with God and to be in His presence!
- Let’s be the dads who realize that God is the one who is able to bring us satisfaction for our deepest hunger!
- Let’s be the dads who don’t lose the wonder that is before us!
- Let’s be the dads who aren’t so focused on living pridefully!
- Let’s be the dads who are willing to wait!
- Let’s be the dads who aren’t trapped in the world of needing instant gratification!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to wait upon the Lord and love our wives!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to wait upon the Lord and love our kids!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to wait upon the Lord and love our the people God brings across our paths!
- Let’s be the dads who invite God into our very situation so that we can live our lives in alignment and in purpose for Him!
- Today’s devotional challenges us in its closing with the following:
