Covenant. That's what I said in my last post. It is vital to your two most important relationships that will firmly establish you as a godly father for your children. So what exactly is the "covenant" I'm talking about? Well there are several kinds of covenants the are spoken of in the Bible. Some people would say that a covenant is a contract but I would beg to differ with that definition because in a contract, if either party is in breach, then the contract is null and void. in a covenant, there is no such clause. A covenant is the strongest promise that can be made because it does not matter whether one party or the other is in breach, the promise holds - FOREVER!
The first covenant that must be made in order to become a Godly father is to establish your covenant with God through his son, Jesus. You accept Jesus' sacrifice for your sins as the most precious gift ever given to mankind. You agree to let Jesus become the Lord and savior of your life and God agrees to bestow every promise and blessing that he made to his chosen people going all the way back to Arbaham. Okay I know it sounds confusing, but its actually very, very simple, and very, very important.
Before I asked Jesus into my life, I had no idea how to love. I didn't know how to love my wife and I was very sure I wouldn't know how to love my children. As a result of allowing Jesus into my life, I learned what true, real love was and I was then able to share that new love with my wife and eventually my children and every other person who came into my life from that point on.
The second covenant we make is to our spouse. We take our vows and those vows are for life. That covenant you make with your spouse is just as strong as the covenant you make with God except that it ends upon death of one or the other spouse.
A covenant always requires blood to seal the deal. In the case of your covenant with God, his son, Jesus, spilled his blood to seal the deal once and for all time. In the case of marriage, the breaking of the hymen is the blood that seals the deal. I know what you're saying, "My wife was not my first, or I wasn't my wife's first, etc." The deal is done any way you slice it. If you and your spouse were not each other's first, then you will need to take it before God to break the old covenant and begin the new one. If this is not done it will lead to problems in your current and future marriages. This is part of the reason people bring their old baggage to new relationships. You must break off those old ties to those covenants you made in the past and God is the only one allowed to make that change because he writes the contracts. Get it? I hope so. If you really hope to be that Godly father or help your husband become one, then you are going to have to make sure your covenants are in order.
You may be thinking I'm drifting off the subject of fatherhood, but as I get deeping into this blog, you will begin to see how important these topics are to being a great and Godly father. Remember, we're learning to build a family, not just an idea. Take your time and do it right. Your children will thank you for it.
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