Seein' My Father in Me

Seein' My Father In Me

Paul Overstreet

Last night we brought the children by to visit their grandpa

And it's plain to see they're truly part of him

While we were there their grandma took out some old photographs

Man he sure looked a lot like me back then.

I'm seein' my father in me, I guess that's how it's meant to be

And I find I'm more and more like him each day

I notice I walk the way he walks I notice I talk the way he talks

I'm startin' to see my father in me.

And today I took my wife for a walk down that old dirt road

Where my daddy took my mom so many times

And we found the time to mention things we never had before

And we shared some thoughts about the family life.

Yeah, I'm seein' my father in me, I guess that's how it's meant to be

And I find I'm more and more like him each day

I notice I walk the way he walks I notice I talk the way he talks

I'm startin' to see my father in me.

And now looking back I can recall the times we disagreed

When I could not take gold of his old fashioned ways

And the more I tried to prove him wrong the more I proved him right

Now I know why he still stood by me when I went through that stage.

I'm seein' my father in me, I guess that's how it's meant to be

And I find I'm more and more like him each day

I notice I walk the way he walks I notice I talk the way he talks

I'm startin' to see my father in me.

And I'm happy to see my father in me...

Songwriters: Paul Overstreet, Taylor Dunn. For non-commercial use only.

Ps 103:13–14.

13 As a father has compassion on his children,

so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

14 For he knows what we are made of,

remembering that we are dust.

Mal 4:5–6.

6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 (CSB) For we are the temple of the living God, as God said:

I will dwell

and walk among them,

and I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

17 Therefore, come out from among them

and be separate, says the Lord;

do not touch any unclean thing,

and I will welcome you.

18 And I will be a Father to you,

and you will be sons and daughters to me,

says the Lord Almighty.

2 Corinthians 1:3-11 (CSB) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. 4 He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

8 We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia. We were completely overwhelmed — beyond our strength — so that we even despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again 11 while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

Psalms 68:5 (CSB) 5 God in his holy dwelling is

a father of the fatherless

and a champion of widows.

What do we see in our Father?

Not what the world tries to depict on television today...

Not what we have seen in men who were ungodly...

Father knows best and Andy Griffin

1. Loves unconditionally, discipline and direction included

2. Forgives completely

3. Gives liberally but doesn’t enable bad behavior

4. Speaks into our lives, wisdom and knowledge encouragement(old fashioned Ideas we don’t always agree with)

5. Great listener hears us when we pray

6. Provides

7. Protects and delivers us from troubles. Helps us out…

8. Comforts

9. Patient with...

10. Never abandons or leaves

Good Father is a good example and our Heavenly Father is the greatest example of these all. We may not have had an earthly father that was like this, but Our Heavenly Father is a Father to the Fatherless...Call upon Him today

What does our family and other see in us?

My Fathers and my heavenly Father…

Let Him be your example...

Let Him be your Father...

Be like Him…