Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America by Chuck Norris

Author:Chuck Norris [Norris, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Political Ideologies, General
ISBN: 9781596980716
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2008-09-07T22:00:00+00:00

A MODEL FOR THE FAMYLY

I believe God wants to reveal Himself to His creation and that some of His greatest relational avenues come through the family. God is spirit, so, when He created us, He could not physically care for us. Rather, He decided that procreation would be packaged with the nurture of a mother and a father. Parents are called to be children’s primary caregivers. But I also believe they have another equally important duty. They are called to reflect God’s image and nature until one day a child physically and emotionally leaves a parent and cleaves to his or her Creator. Austin L. Sorensen15 was correct when he said, “A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.”

Parenting is largely about reflecting God’s nature to children. That is particularly the case in fathering, since it is as a heavenly father that God has primarily revealed Himself. At its heart marriage is also all about sharing and experiencing God’s love and nature as well. If God indwells us, and gives us power to do what we are sometimes incapable of doing, then loving unconditionally and revealing Himself through our conduct in marriage must have a very significant purpose. That’s why I believe that a father’s greatest role is reflecting His Heavenly Father’s image to his children. And a husband’s greatest goal is reflecting Christ’s love to his wife. In this sense men are heads of their homes: that they are called to be the greatest servant leaders. Fathers were designed to show their children what God is like. In that sense fathers are children’s first Sunday school. That is likely why George Herbert said, “One father is more than a hundred school-masters.”

With this honorable type of power in our original design, it is no wonder that there is today a war on fatherhood and masculinity. 16 With men on the cultural butchering block, it is high time that men arose not only to protect our national borders but the boundaries of the family.

Therefore, modeling God’s character should be a father’s greatest family goal. From this goal alone, a father’s children will reciprocate with respect and adoration. And a wife will reciprocate with love and attention. Of course we will fail. That’s God’s assurance plan that neither our wife nor our children will replace us for Him who is perfect in all ways and to whom we all must ultimately look as the author of life, liberty, and happiness.

Of course, modeling God’s nature and love cannot be done alone. It requires the help of others—the encouragement of others. That’s why I encourage men to be continually influenced by outside sources, extended families, spiritual families, and spiritual mentors, like Ed Cole did for me and others still do for me.

There’s a possibility that you might be hearing this fatherly advice for the first time. I remember when I first heard it from Ed. Even when I had children, though I loved them dearly, I was still too focused on me.

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