Father - Social

How do children learn how to communicate with others? Who did God appoint to protect children, to be their advocates?

In the Bible, Fathers were appointed to protect their families, making sure no one was taken advantage of. Those who did not have this protection were truly disadvantaged. This included widows and children without fathers. Fathers had closer relationships with their sons, making sure to have them circumsized, pass on the family inheritance, find a wife for their sons, and to teach them a trade. The Bible doesn't talk alot about the father's role in the life of a daughter. This is probably because women were not mentioned as often as men and many times the women took care of the homes as the men were taught trades.

The other day, I was talking with some friends and they explained how the husband had grown up with parents who were seperated and later divorced. Not much longer, the father moved to California while the mother stayed here to take after her son. It really hit me for some reason. Where in our society has it become common practice that a father is no longer needed just because of a divorce? The relationship with children is seperate than one with a spouse and no matter what, that father should have made the decision to stay close to his son, so that he could train him up and protect him. As a community, a church, a body of Christ, we are called to step in the gap that is created through the pain of divorce. We must seek out those who need a father in their lives.

Please pray for those families you know have been torn by divorce. Pray for the father to continue to play the role that God created for him and pray that God will work in those lives.

Please continue to pray for Erika M.