Are You Like Your Father?

By Rhiannonw

Sun, 18 Jun 2023
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[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

Am I like my father?
did he help or fail?
was he wise or foolish,
strong or weak and frail?

Lazy, or hard-working,
firm, but gentle too,
honest or deceitful,
struggling, but true.

Did he know a Father
who would always care?
Did he lead me to Him,
so His name I’d bear?

As I’ve been adopted
to God’s family,
more like this good Father
I now want to be!

Tune: 65 65 65 65 eg Quietude by H Green, tune of ‘Speak, Lord, in the stillness’

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Submitted by Nolan on

Some examples of good fathers are from the Bible, Adam, Noah, David, and of course Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and here by us we have Paul Kruger and Nelson Mandela!

I loved my dad but I wouldn't want to be like him thank-you!

& Nolan

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Exactly, some have fathers who are so respected and remembered with thankfulness, but some remember fathers who were even very wicked, but as Christians, having a heavenly Father, we do want to grow to be like Him, He is a real role model perfect! Rhiannon