Ziklag 4.17 - Victory is Compounding

SOS, and Fatherhood

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

There is a day when the wicked rise up. cf Pr. 28:28

If you do not ask, how can you know? If you have not sought, what could you find? Those who refuse to knock may only remain outside in the cold. cf Mt. 7:7

Victory is compounding, for hope is not confidence. cf Sun Tzu 4.14

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What It Takes

from a potential work on sons

The power of parenthood is that the next generation lives and dies with you. If you teach them, they will learn. If you do not teach them, somebody else will.

Having a blessing without having the understanding to use that blessing for good is the root of many evils. There are many lessons that a little boy can learn that ought not be learned. Once headed down some paths, it grows ever more difficult to return.

Nature is God’s fall back plan. After everything else about man fails, when man’s rebellions are raging out of control, it is the natural order that buttresses us all in. It is man, as he is, as his Maker made him, that is ever our last and only hope.

There is one Savior, and he, a son, which means that he, too, asked questions of his father as he grew. He, too, looked up and homeward for strength, comfort and love. He, too, when he took his first steps, looked for assurance that indeed he would have what it takes.

Every boy wants to prove himself a man. But no matter how hard he try, no matter how many things he achieve, though the crowds cheer and roar as he stands firm in the arena, if he lacks his father’s blessing, it will not be enough.

A blessing is more than just approval. It is not simply cheer-leading. It is honest-to-goodness trust, channeled from the father to the son and back again.

“Can I do it Dad?”

“Yes, son. Go ahead.”

Just like that, the boy is the man, and, together, they are what the world needs most.