Daddy Defined

Being a husband is not a prerequisite to being a father...

(and I'm not permitting pre-marital sex)

"Even though you have 10,000 guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers..." (I Cor. 4:15)

"And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse." (Malachi 4:6)

God is our Father in Heaven, and He wants more people like Him. I believe He is looking to & fro throughout the earth for people with hearts like His own. He is a Father, and He lovingly disciplines us like a Father. He holds us as a Father. We can sit in His lap as a child does with his or her father. 

However, many fathers today have abandoned their families, whether physically, emotionally or verbally. Maybe even spiritual things have led him astray. The devil is tricky, but not as powerful as those who walk according to Christ. For we have overcome him through our Big Daddy.

It's difficult for many to even comprehend God as a loving Father, because of their experiences with unloving ones. With abortion rampant & accepted, men are able to abandon their families much earlier. Men, we will be held more responsible for abortion in America than women. We are the leaders and the heads of households.

If we are held responsible for this atrocity, then what should our response be? 

If we are to begin living as Godly fathers, then what does this look like?

Is adoption a practical answer that God is giving us to redeem the fatherless?

"I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist him." - Job (Job 29:12)

"[Jesus] defends the cause of the fatherless  and the widow... giving him food and clothing." (Deut. 10:18)