The Guardian Redeemer Of The Family Series

You see, when Naomi heard that Ruth worked in the field of Boaz, her kinsman redeemer, she was able to dream again.

In the same manner, Boaz is the symbol of Jesus Christ, the one who will Redeem our homes from sin and attacks of the enemy.

When we have Christ as the head of our home, we can dream again.

When we have Christ in our hearts, this dream, can be a reality.

That is why we cannot declare that Jesus is the head of our home if we do not declare that Jesus is the head of our lives.

The Scripture says that Christ is the head of the church which is His body.

And so, is Christ the head of your life?

If He is, then, is Christ the head of your home?

Have you dedicated your home to the Lordship of Christ?

As fathers, we receive forgiveness from God for all our shortcomings.

There is no such thing as a perfect father.

We are all imperfect human beings saved by the grace of God and learning how to live righteous lives each day.

We stumble once in a while but as we stand up and learn to live for Christ, we change the atmosphere of the home bit by bit.

Then, we grow and we learn how to speak blessings of encouragement to our family members and this brings us closer to the reality of the dream.

But that is just the first part.

The second life lesson is that

THE HOME SHOULD BE PROPERLY PROVIDED. 1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV) 8 Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."

This verse teaches us that anyone who does not provide for their relatives has denied the faith.

In other translation, it says that anyone who does not provide for his own family is worst than an unbeliever.

And so, to be a good Christian, the home should be properly provided for not only with sufficient food to eat but with emotional stability, with spiritual nourishment and with words of wisdom and discernment so that the spiritual attacks of the enemy will be vanquished.

Let me now ask my fellow fathers, "Is your home properly provided with these things?"

Do you abound with encouraging words for your children to hear or do you often cut them off and insist your own authority?

You see, that is the very reason why we are here in church every Sunday.

So that we will know and learn from God's Word how to fulfill our responsibilities as godly fathers by the grace of God.

Because we had to admit that we all lack these knowledge by ourselves.

No one taught us those things before and after we became fathers and we learn by trial and error experimenting with the lives of our precious children.

And frankly speaking, we made mistakes most of the time.

Our children are so precious to become our genuine pigs in this laboratory called life.

There was a true story I read from the internet that happened in 1978, concerning a man by the name of Thomas Hansen of Boulder Colorado.

This man sued his parents for $350,000 on grounds of "malpractice of parenting."

That means his parents did a very bad and unacceptable job in raising him up.

Mom and Dad had botched his upbringing so badly, he charged in his suit, that he would need years of costly psychiatric treatment just to recover.