It has been 23 years since my father Benjamin Franklin Bland died. With the totality of his life and passage of time I have come to more fully understand God’s covenant of fatherhood. Taught to me by a father who loved me in such a way that I could see heaven in his eyes.
What I have come to know is that in God’s covenant of fatherhood he loves us not because we are perfect but because he knows we can be better. In Jeremiah 29:11 the Lord declares that he has plans for us to prosper, plans not for harm but for a hope and a future.
What I have come to know is that in God’s covenant of fatherhood he loves and trusts us. Psalm 8 reminds us that God put us in charge of everything he made. Giving us stewardship over the flocks and the herds, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.
What I have come to know is that God’s covenant of fatherhood that love is redemptive. John 3:16 declares “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The everlasting life of God is to be lived while we are still on Earth as we live the ways of Jesus.
It has been 33 years since I have become a father and now 12 that I have been a grandfather. Ten of my fatherhood years were spent with my father as the grandpa. As he bounded bounced my son on his knee my dad said, “enjoy him because the time goes by fast.” My father was right the time has gone fast for his young son who was a young father then is an old grandpa now.
However, as the years have gone by, and I celebrate another Father’s Day with the found memory of my dad I am certain of one thing God’s covenant of fatherhood is real. God’ covenant of fatherhood is solid, and covenant of fatherhood is enduring for as Jesus told us in Matthew 28:20 “I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Happy Father’s Day.
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