A Quest For Character Series

(© Phillips, Craig and Dean – words copied from inside cover “Favorite Songs of All”)

He climbs in my lap for a goodnight hug, He calls me Dad and I call him Bub. With his faded old pillow and a bear named Pooh, He snuggles up close and says, “I want to be like you.” “I tuck him in bed and I kiss him goodnight, trippin’ over the toys as I turn out the light. And I whisper a prayer that someday he’ll see, He’s got a father in God, ‘cause he’s seen Jesus in me.

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Lord I want to be just like You, ‘cause He wants to be just like me. I want to be a holy example for his innocent eyes to see. Help me be a living Bible, Lord that my little boy can read. I want to be just like you, ‘cause he wants to be just like me.

Got to admit I’ve got so far to go, make so many mistakes and I’m sure that you know. Sometimes it seems no matter how hard I try, with all the pressures in life I just can’t get it all right. But I’m trying so hard to learn from the best. Being patient and kind, filled with Your tenderness, ‘Cause I know that he’ll learn from the things he sees. And the Jesus he finds will be the Jesus in me.

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Right now from where he stands I may seem mighty tall. But its only ‘cause I’m learning from the very best Father of them all.

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“Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it.” Proverbs 22:6, NLT

If future generations are going to walk the pathway of Christianity, we must mark for them our journey with the Divine. We must make the pathway we’ve traveled clear and present to them. Our quest for the character of God which they must see and experience first hand.

We teach what we know. We reproduce who we are.