The Father As the One Who Cares
The father is the one who loves you and cares for you. His role as the one who cares is rooted in the Constitutional Scripture: Genesis 2:15
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.
In the original King James version, the word "dress" means to "cultivate". The word "keep" means "to care for" To care for is to pay close attention to needs and also meet those needs. Keep this in mind, caring goes far beyond our normal thoughts of serving, encouraging and ministering to someone.
Remember, the word care means to anticipate a need and meet it. You make provisions before he or she even senses the need. This is the kind of caring that the Constitution speaks of in Psalm 8:4
What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
To be mindful means to have one's mind filled with thoughts about another individual or person. God the Father has filled His thoughts with us. He anticipates and thinks about what we will need before we even need it.
Remember what Jesus the Christ taught us: that our Father cares deeply for us.
Constitutional Scripture: Matthew 6:31-33
So do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" 32) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33) But seek first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well
A father, like the Lord, cares by spending His time and energy anticipating what his wife and children need next. A father is constantly thinking about caring for his wife and children.
Keep in mind, a work-driven culture tries to force men to continually think about what the company or corporation needs, so that they have no time to think about anyone else's needs. Men no longer work to live, but live to work. Even at home, a man's mind is often drifting off to work and either solving problems or thinking on new projects. Or the father comes home from his place of employment so tired from working , that he dozes off in front of the television. Meanwhile, his family is left neglected and uncared for because he is too tired or busy to think about their needs.
Men who are wrapped up in their careers and running after the corporate world have their motivation and priorities out of place. They have taken their work, a gift from God that He intended to help support their families, and made it an idol. They end up caring more about the gift than the family for which it was given or the God who gave it. Such idolatry will ruin the man and his family.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.
In the original King James version, the word "dress" means to "cultivate". The word "keep" means "to care for" To care for is to pay close attention to needs and also meet those needs. Keep this in mind, caring goes far beyond our normal thoughts of serving, encouraging and ministering to someone.
Remember, the word care means to anticipate a need and meet it. You make provisions before he or she even senses the need. This is the kind of caring that the Constitution speaks of in Psalm 8:4
What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
To be mindful means to have one's mind filled with thoughts about another individual or person. God the Father has filled His thoughts with us. He anticipates and thinks about what we will need before we even need it.
Remember what Jesus the Christ taught us: that our Father cares deeply for us.
Constitutional Scripture: Matthew 6:31-33
So do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" 32) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33) But seek first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well
A father, like the Lord, cares by spending His time and energy anticipating what his wife and children need next. A father is constantly thinking about caring for his wife and children.
Keep in mind, a work-driven culture tries to force men to continually think about what the company or corporation needs, so that they have no time to think about anyone else's needs. Men no longer work to live, but live to work. Even at home, a man's mind is often drifting off to work and either solving problems or thinking on new projects. Or the father comes home from his place of employment so tired from working , that he dozes off in front of the television. Meanwhile, his family is left neglected and uncared for because he is too tired or busy to think about their needs.
Men who are wrapped up in their careers and running after the corporate world have their motivation and priorities out of place. They have taken their work, a gift from God that He intended to help support their families, and made it an idol. They end up caring more about the gift than the family for which it was given or the God who gave it. Such idolatry will ruin the man and his family.
