I will be the first to tell you that I am not that big of a fan of father's day or mother's day. I truly feel like when we set aside a day to remember them we lose the impact of doing it. I think people call, send cards and buy gifts on these days mainly because they feel like they have to. I truly don't like the idea of tellling my dad I love him or my mother I love her on a certain day of the year more than the others. If you love your parents it will be apparent and known to be a fact year round. But still there are more cards purchased, more phone calls made on mothers day and fathers day than any other day of the year. This fact is sad.
But, as we prepare for father's day there are so many sermons that get tossed around. The prodigal son is a regular favorite of pastors all through out the land. The story of a father whose son takes all of his inheritance early, runs off and blows it big time. The son ends up eating out of pigs troughs and begging for slop until he has had enough. When the son comes back to beg to live with the servants, instead the father throws a huge party and while this angers the other children it teaches a great point of how fathers should be and more important how God our HEavenly Father accepts us back after sin after sin.
I want to a bit of a character study later this week, as study on possibly the most under rated father in the history of mankind. Joseph, JEsus' earthly father. THrough out history we look at Mary, the virgin birth, what an awesome example of purity and faith she was. We seldom take the time to look at Joseph a father chosen by God. If you want to know what a father should look like, shouldn't you look at the only father that was good enough for God's own Son?
So think about all your misconceptions of Joseph the carpenter and what he meant to the story and tomorrow we will start studying a little bit about this man, the man God chose to raise His Son.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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