When Father Reads the Book

Happy Father's Day!
Father's Day Checkup:  Are you protecting your family?  Are you providing for your family? Are you leading your family spirtually?  Are you standing on the Word of God?  Fathers Day can be a good time to evaluate and make adjustments in how you are leading your family. Stay Strong & Stay in the Word!

When Father Reads the Book
by G. E. Foster

In these days of rush and bustle
When we hurry off to work,
I’m reminded of those early times
When father read the Book.
When father read the Book.
As we each our places took
Round the dear old family altar
When father read the Book.

O those dear old Bible stories,
Psalms that flowed like rippling brook;
Warnings, promises, and precepts
Lived, as father read that Book.
As father read the Book.
Satan’s kingdom round us shook,
And our Savior early claimed us
Because father read the Book.

O they say it was old-fashioned,
And what waste of time ‘twould look
To now take half-an-hour
To let father read the Book.
But as father read the Book,
Blessed thought in our minds stuck;
And the day went so much better
Just ‘cause father read the Book.

Oft I’m troubled as I journey
On toward heav’n with upward look,
To see families all about me
Grow up without father’s Book.
Let father read the Book,
Kneel and pray and read the Book;
Your home will be so different
If your father reads the Book.

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Thankful that my Daddy was a man who read the Book! Thankful that God and family were priorities for him. Thankful for his example, for his sacrifice, for his love for his wife and his children. I could go on and on for he was a great father. He went home to heaven in 2005 and I still miss him. Looking forward to seeing him again some sweet day! 

Soli Deo Gloria
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Psalm 119 - All 176 verses in Psalm 119 stress the written Word of God.  The Holy Scriptures are profitable in every way and able to meet every need in time and eternity.


All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,  that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Tim 3:16-17 (ESV)