I am very blessed to have a wonderful father child relationship, our relationship is very special to me and I thank God daily for my dad. He is the greatest example of Christ that I’ve ever known!
Based on the father child relationship I’ve had in my own life and the observations I’ve had throughout my life with friends that didn’t have one, I truly believe that a father child relationship is much more important than we truly understand.
How Our Children View God is Greatly Based on Their Father Child Relationship
It is through the father child relationship that our children are able to begin to understand the relationship that God desires to have with them. The protection and security that they need is found in the man that God has placed in their lives as their fathers. As our children grow into men and women how they view God will greatly be based on their relationship with their fathers.
If your husband is not currently pursuing a deep father child relationship, I highly recommend that you begin praying that God would impress upon his heart the need for it. God answers prayer, and this is one that I have personally come to fruition after many years of prayer for my own children. It has been a blessing to see God work this out Himself in His timing and it is more beautiful done God’s way than by us.
Mothers Need to Support the Father Child Relationship
As mothers we need to ensure that we allow our husbands and children to have time alone together so they can build a strong relationship. At times it may seem like you are giving up time that you would like to have/need with your husband, but the benefits will outweigh the time you’ve “lost”. When dad takes the time to spend with their children it boosts their self esteem and that will spill over into our children’s attitudes and home life. All of which will begin to make things better you too!
We may not understand the father child relationship as the mother, but we can see the positive and/or negative affect it has when our children do/don’t have one. Sometimes what they choose to do together isn’t what we would “like” them to do or what we would do, but as our husbands and children begin to build a relationship they will come to enjoy the times they have together more and more. It won’t matter when or what they do, the time spent together will be all that matters.
When we truly look at life with our eyes wide open we realize that this moment in time is all we really have, are we making the most of it? Are we spending it with those that we love dearly? With who are you spending your time today?
