God's Goals For Your Roles: Devotions From Time Of Grace MinistrySample

HUSBANDS AND FATHERS: GOOD FATHERS SHOW THEIR CHILDREN HOW TO WORK One of the features of life in families that suffer from intergenerational poverty is that the kids have no close family role models of people who have graduated from school and who go to work on time every day. God loves work. He does it all day every day himself, and he designed his creatures to work too. God had Adam working all day on his creation day even before he introduced him to his beautiful wife, Eve. There were men in the early Christian church who were setting a poor example by their laziness and excuses. St. Paul had a better way: "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands . . . so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody" (1 Thessalonians 4:11,12). Employers love employees with a strong work ethic. So do wives. And children desperately need to see a man in action in their lives who earns his bread, keeps his word, does good work, takes pride in his home, and knows how to finish a job.