Isaiah 62:10 says, "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people."
As fathers, we have the priceless privilege of being moral, godly standard-bearers for not only our own families, but ultimately the whole nation. We must, and can, change this nation for good--one family at a time, beginning with our own family.
For too long we have as a so-called Christian nation allowed our godly Christian morals and values to slip and fall away to the point that we appear to many of the world's Islamic peoples, who hold extremely strict moral codes with harsh penalties, to be decadent, offensive, and ungodly. However, we know that for all their prayers and strict religious observances that their religion is full of massive hypocrisies and injustices, especially towards woman. Their barbaric treatment of innocent people by the use of the sword in order to convert them to Islam is plain straight demonic and evil.
Unfortunately, as a Christian nation, we appear to those who want to attack us as immoral, ungodly, given to drugs, alcohol, pornography, shootings, murders, adulteries, and abortions. Our checkout tabloids are full of it. Our media and movie theaters are full of it.
As a Christian nation we have been called by God to be a light to a dark world, to be an example nation of people who speak the truth, to be a people who show forth justice, honor, and integrity.
Fathers, all this has to start in our homes. It is we men and fathers who must raise the standards of honesty, purity, and godly morals.
We must start today.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell