While driving up to Portland last week, as is my tradition, I kick off every road trip with a Bible lesson. Typically I ask them if they've heard the story of something in the Bible and then they tell me everything they know, and then I expand on what they know.
This last trip we were talking about God's law. Specifically the moral law. Why God created it, why we follow it, etc.
Well it came time to ask the kids to put things into their own words, and ... this is what hit me.
IN EVERY single one of my daughter's examples, she said "well it'd be like if Daddy ....." in every one of her examples I was the God role in the comparison example she'd use.
It struck me very hard, the reality of what all the books say, that a child's dad is their role model of God's character.
I'm sure she didn't realize she was doing it, but I did.
And I said a little prayer of thanks to God quickly "God thanks for not letting my lose my temper the other day when I wanted to, and if you think about it... please let me be a good example to my daughter."
a LOT is riding on our behavior dads.
I've always known it, but that moment made it very very real for me.
