Father Knows Best

Scripture Reading: Gen. 22:4-16

Test Verse: Gen: 22:14 - But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “May father!’ and he said, “Here I am, my son,” And he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”.

Father Knows Best

Father Know Best debuted as a radio sitcom in 1949 and was later transplanted as a television series in 1954. In this family comedy of an insurance salesman and his family was an overly rosy portrayal of American family life in America when a part of America was left out of TV, jobs, schools and other things that were convenient for others. This was back during the time when moms were moms, kids were kids and “fathers knew best”. . This was before Sanford and Son, All in the Family, M.A.S.H., The Jeffersons, and Chico and the Man. The problems that arose with the Betty (boy crazy teen-age girl), Bud (all-American boy who always needed a little more money) and Kathy who felt that her status in the family was over-looked could; be handled by the father, who knew best.

The show “Father Knows Best” is perhaps more important for what is has to come represent than for what it actually was. We needs Fathers who are at home and involved in the life problems of his family.

Father Knows Best

The godly father is conscious of the impact his presence has on his family’s life and by extension, has considered what the consequences would were he to walk away from them.

A father presence gives his family security.

A father is his child first view of what God is like if Dad is around in everyday life, then it is easier for his son or daughter to understand that God is present too.