The Inheritance of Wisdom

Introduction

We have gathered here this morning to lift up and worship the name of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ. We have come with our many frailties and insecurities to be reminded that we have a God that really loves us. We have also come today to celebrate Father’s Day and to pay tribute to our fathers, while some of us our even pondering our own roles as Fathers and leaders in our homes.

Unlike Mother’s Day when we go all out to celebrate Mother’s everywhere, Father’s Day does not get the same attention. Father’s day seemingly is filled with a lot of mixed emotions and feelings that many times we do not want to discuss or even bring up. I can remember growing up and a lot of times did not want to mention my Father because he drank and I thought that he really did not care about us. We did not have all of the things that everybody else had, and we felt left out. But as I grew older and began to look at my Father, I realize with all of his insecurities and frailties, he loved all seven of us in his own way. He did his best to protect and provide for us, and we did not go without.

There are many of you here today who would just assume forget about your relationship with your Father because it was not all peaches and cream. Then there are those of us who have had relationships with our Father’s that were outstanding. Our memories of childhood and our Fathers have been good and for some have been bad, and then there are men who would love to have been fathers but are not, and then there are those who are standing in the gap as fathers to someone else’s children, and then there are those of us who are fathers but have forgotten our role as fathers.

As fathers of school-aged children, grown up children, children who think they are grown, and those who have grandchildren, all fathers sense the ambiguity of the role: as fathers we partial successes, and partial failures; we are thankful for many things, and then there are some things that we regret doing. I would like to give a side bar here and talk to mothers and wives, whatever you do please do not talk down about your child’s or children’s father no matter what they have done or what they have not done.

This morning for a brief moment I want to preach about “The Inheritance of Wisdom.”