Father, we know that you were always there to listen to your Son. Your relationship with him broke your heart when he suffered and died for us. I pray that we might invest ourselves entirely in our children. I ask that we would be able to risk everything for them and be vulnerable to their pain and heartache. As you sent him to the cross when he asked if there would be another way, I pray that we might discipline our children in love.
I ask that as you revealed yourself to your Son Jesus, we would reveal you to our children. May they see your fatherhood in us. May they also see in us fathers who love you, their heavenly Father, with all their strength. May they see fathers who confess their sins, repent, and seek first your kingdom and your righteousness. May our children also see in us men who love their mother and lay down their lives for her.
Lord, we thank you for our fathers. We thank you for the ways that they pointed us to you, and when they failed us, we thank you that you did not. AMEN.
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