Saturday, June 20, 2020


Father’s Day

Father’s Day is the day we set aside to honor our fathers, though I suspect, these days, it best serves the interests of the merchants.

Nevertheless… Father’s Day is upon us and as such is an appropriate time to take note of something God said: “Every one of you shall honor… his father” (Leviticus 19:3).

Actually, God said something even more significant: “You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. Every one of you shall honor…his father” (19:2,3), thus establishing a connection between holy living and paternal honor. You can’t have one without the other.

Few men my age have living parents, thus we can honor them only in our memories. But most of us have living children. We, as fathers, cannot insist that they honor us, but we can do something even better: We can, by God’s grace, become the kind of men and fathers that our children find easy to honor (Ephesians 6:4).

David Roper
6.20.20
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