Latest / The Family Teams Podcast / Ep. 77 | Why Does the Book of Proverbs Say the Glory of Children Is Their Fathers?

Transcript

Ep. 77 | Why Does the Book of Proverbs Say the Glory of Children Is Their Fathers? · The Family Teams Podcast

• 0:00
  Children tend to root in the love and presence and strength of their dads. They're incredibly vulnerable. Hey guys, welcome to the 5-Minute Fatherhood Podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you on your journey as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.
• 0:32
  Hey, guys, welcome back to the Five Minute Fatherhood. Why does the book of Proverbs say the glory of children is their fathers? Kind of an interesting statement. Probably the first thought I've had about this is, you know, when you get a couple of five-year-olds together and they say, my dad could beat up your dad. Why do they say that? Like, why do kids naturally...
• 0:54
  really glory in the strength of their dads? And is that a good thing? And I really think that it's important for us dads to embrace this reality that oftentimes our kids do look up to us, right? They
• 1:11
  Children tend to root in the love and presence and strength of their dads. They're incredibly vulnerable, right? They live in a dangerous world, and the only thing standing between them and all of the dangers of the world is their dad. And if they sense the strength of their dad, the peace of their dad—
• 1:29
  then they become a very peaceful person. This allows them to not kind of go into survival mode, but to really be relaxed, to be accepting of a lot of the things about their life. And the way they're doing that is they're glorying in their Father.
• 1:46
  And a lot of times I don't think we really realize how important this is to hold our kids, allow them to feel our strength, to feel our peace, for them to sense that, hey, I'm going to stand between you and all those crazy dangers in the world. And this is really the beginning of their understanding of what it's like to have trust in God as their Heavenly Father.
• 2:06
  And when they begin to get older and realize, man, the world really is dangerous. Like, my dad isn't the strongest person in the world, and I need something else to anchor in. Then we introduce them to their Heavenly Father. Like, this is—you know, I was just a stand-in. But in that period where kids are young, they glory in their fathers, and I think it's actually a good, normal, peaceful, necessary part of their development. Yeah.
• 2:31
  Totally, totally. And I love, yeah, my dad can beat up your dad. It's the classic. I don't know if Cannon will ever be able to say that about me, but I feel like maybe he'll say, maybe I'll hope that he says my dad can out garden your dad, maybe out cook your dad, maybe out build your dad and probably out read your dad. If I can get those ones from Cannon, if he can brag on me for those, I'll take that. Those are my goals. But it is true. I think what you said at the end was it is the
• 2:56
  that we have a really cool opportunity in their small childlike finite mind to really paint a beautiful picture of the father as such a shepherd and a guarder of their heart, their mind, their actual physical safety, their body, their life, that we just can sense breakdowns before they can. We can see danger that they can't see, and we will actually help them with it, guard them from it, protect them from it, and that that's just a picture of God
• 3:25
  in Jesus who protects us, who dies for us, who sacrifices for us, and who ultimately is for us and for our goodness and for our blessing. And that's the main thing is like for our good, because even when you do encounter some suffering and pain, the thing that always is the balm to the soul, especially speaking to anyone who's gone through really serious tragedy, but walks with the Lord, they would say is that he is for their good. And they still know that, and they still know that he is near, and they still know that he is present in.
• 3:50
  And that is that cool opportunity we have is that we are for the good of our children. And when they can continually, when they can almost know that in a knee jerk reaction, like that, they just know that as a given and they don't have to think about it. Man, that is a blessing, not only for our family and for us ourselves, but mainly also for our kids.
• 4:08
  Hey guys, can I just ask you a quick favor? If you could just pause real quick. Well, actually after I'm done with this, so it makes sense. And about for about 30 seconds and just rate and review this podcast. We can 10 X the number of dads we help through this content. If our podcast can be found by more dads. And one of the weird main things about this podcast game is that how they get ranked and how they get in front of other people essentially is because of how it gets rated and reviewed. So if you can just give a quick, honest rating and review, we would greatly, greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys.