{"id":10988,"date":"2018-07-28T05:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2018-07-28T05:08:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:08:41","slug":"as-a-father-what-is-your-job-descrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10988","title":{"rendered":"As a father, what is your job description?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted from <strong>www.odb.org<\/strong><br \/>\nLike our Father, what is job description?<br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Adam Holz<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!\u00a0Matthew 7:11 (<strong>Matthew 7:7\u201311<\/strong>)<br \/>\nSome problems have Daddy\u2019s name written all over them. For instance, my kids recently discovered bees had moved into a crack in our concrete front porch. So, armed with bug spray, I went out to do battle.<br \/>\nI got stung. Five times. (<em>E e ya, the pains of executive houseboys called fathers<\/em>)<br \/>\nI don\u2019t like being stung by insects. But better me than my kids or wife. Taking care of my family\u2019s well-being is at the top of my job description after all. My children recognized a need, and they asked me to address it. They trusted me to protect them from something they feared.<br \/>\nIn Matthew 7, Jesus teaches that we too should bring our needs to God (v. 7), trusting Him with our requests. To illustrate, Jesus gives a case study in character: \u201cWhich of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?\u201d (vv. 9\u201310). For loving parents, the answer is obvious. But Jesus answers anyway, challenging us not to lose faith in our Father\u2019s generous goodness: \u201cIf you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!\u201d (v. 11).<br \/>\nI can\u2019t imagine loving my kids more. But Jesus assures us that even the best earthly father\u2019s love is eclipsed by God\u2019s love for us.<br \/>\n<strong>Father, thank You for loving us so much more than even the best father here ever could. Help us to do as Jesus said with everything that\u2019s on our hearts; to ask, seek, and knock in our relationship with You.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWe can rely on our Father for everything we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted from www.odb.org Like our Father, what is job description? By\u00a0Adam Holz If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!\u00a0Matthew 7:11 (Matthew 7:7\u201311) Some problems have Daddy\u2019s name written all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}