We often talk about the importance of having a strong father figure in the house. But, we don't always talk about what the characteristics of the strong father are. In the parable of the Prodigal Son, we get an incredible picture of what it looks like to be a Strong Dad! Here are six ways that the Father responds to us so that we can respond the same to our children.
Unconditional Love: The father's love transcends the son's rebellion. He doesn't withhold affection as punishment.For Dads Today: Show your love consistently, through actions and words. Let your children know they are loved,regardless of their choices. You don’t have to love their choices, but work hard to love them through their choices. When you see a bad choice make sure to separate them from the choice in your judgement. “Your choice is ridiculous.” Verses - “you are ridiculous”
Allowed Freewill - The father did not try to stop, redirect, or even threaten his son to change his mind. He allowed the son to make his own decision. (obviously, we are not recommending this for a young child. But as our children turn into young adults, we must strongly consider releasing them to their ways.
Patient Trust vs Aggressive Chase: The father waits patiently rather than running after his son. He trusts that there is going to be good that comes from all of this. He may have felt impatient and wanted God to deliver his son back to him faster, but this is not mentioned in the parable. For Dads Today: Practice patience. Growth takes time. Trust your children's ability to learn and make amends.
Unending Desire for Restoration: The father never “writes him off”. He's constantly aware,watching for his return. For Dads Today: Be observant. Pay attention to your children's subtle cues, their joys and struggles. Be present in their lives.
Unconditional Forgiveness: The father doesn't look at his son and say, “you need to apologize to me before I can forgive you.” He embraces his son the moment he sees him, demonstrating immense compassion. For Dads Today: Focus on reconciliation, not punishment. Let forgiveness be a bridge to rebuild the relationship.
Celebrate God’s Work: The father throws a feast, not out of obligation, but out of joy for his son's return. He gives freely, restoring his son's dignity. For Dads Today: Be generous with your love, time, and resources.Celebrate your children's victories, big and small.
As we continue on with the duty and responsibility to raise the next generation. Consider how you can be more like the father in the story of the Prodigal Son.
We often talk about the importance of having a strong father figure in the house. But, we don't always talk about what the characteristics of the strong father are. In the parable of the Prodigal Son, we get an incredible picture of what it looks like to be a Strong Dad! Here are six ways that the Father responds to us so that we can respond the same to our children.
Unconditional Love: The father's love transcends the son's rebellion. He doesn't withhold affection as punishment.For Dads Today: Show your love consistently, through actions and words. Let your children know they are loved,regardless of their choices. You don’t have to love their choices, but work hard to love them through their choices. When you see a bad choice make sure to separate them from the choice in your judgement. “Your choice is ridiculous.” Verses - “you are ridiculous”
Allowed Freewill - The father did not try to stop, redirect, or even threaten his son to change his mind. He allowed the son to make his own decision. (obviously, we are not recommending this for a young child. But as our children turn into young adults, we must strongly consider releasing them to their ways.
Patient Trust vs Aggressive Chase: The father waits patiently rather than running after his son. He trusts that there is going to be good that comes from all of this. He may have felt impatient and wanted God to deliver his son back to him faster, but this is not mentioned in the parable. For Dads Today: Practice patience. Growth takes time. Trust your children's ability to learn and make amends.
Unending Desire for Restoration: The father never “writes him off”. He's constantly aware,watching for his return. For Dads Today: Be observant. Pay attention to your children's subtle cues, their joys and struggles. Be present in their lives.
Unconditional Forgiveness: The father doesn't look at his son and say, “you need to apologize to me before I can forgive you.” He embraces his son the moment he sees him, demonstrating immense compassion. For Dads Today: Focus on reconciliation, not punishment. Let forgiveness be a bridge to rebuild the relationship.
Celebrate God’s Work: The father throws a feast, not out of obligation, but out of joy for his son's return. He gives freely, restoring his son's dignity. For Dads Today: Be generous with your love, time, and resources.Celebrate your children's victories, big and small.
As we continue on with the duty and responsibility to raise the next generation. Consider how you can be more like the father in the story of the Prodigal Son.
Welcome to the Ropsala Families Podcast. I am Linda Hutchison here with man of the. Hour. Merle, hi honey why?
Speaker 2:
am I the man of the Hour?
Speaker 1:
Because as we're recording, we are about to enter the weekend of Father's Day but it's also Actually it's the weekend of me. It's the weekend of Merle, because the day before Father's Day it's your birthday. Yes, it is, which you always say. You felt like you got ripped off because they are so always close together.
Speaker 2:
But I stopped saying that when we had Cameron, our son, who has his birthday on Christmas.
Speaker 1:
So I had to stop whining because I'm talking about getting robbed, because he can't run away from that date. That has always going to be Father's Day, but you're going to be listening to day this shift, yeah, yeah, but you're going to be listening to this after your birthday and father's day, so I'm sure you've been. You've been blessed with all kinds of gifts and your daughter says she's got you two gifts. I'm afraid to know birthday and father's day, so she is on it so, but what are we talking about today?
Speaker 2:
because we kind of are this actually? Goes with our topic yeah, it is um, and and maybe a little bit after, but the idea of like what, uh, you know we do the strong dad show right on not you and I yes, but uh, rock solid families also helps produce the strong dad show and, um, you know we oftentimes talk about dad stuff and we're going to talk today about well, what?
Speaker 2:
what does a real man, a strong dad, a father, what does he really look like? You know some really interesting stuff, I know. I just said I watched the Band of Brothers. I watched the Band of Brothers series again.
Speaker 1:
You didn't say that here.
Speaker 2:
No, but I said it to you about five times During your knee recovery 10 hours.
Speaker 1:
Yeah well, I had to profit, that's right. That's right, you have to sit.
Speaker 2:
Yeah and so. But you know, sometimes that generation is referred to as the greatest generation and if you go back and you look at the statistics, 70% of kids had both parents in the home, 70% back in the 1930s and 40s. What's the statistic?
Speaker 1:
today.
Speaker 2:
And now that statistic is down. Depending on, really, your neighborhood and your culture, it could be in the 40s, 30s, 20s and even lower. Yeah, so it kind of really just depends. 30s, 20s and even lower yeah, so it kind of really just depends. The point is is it's about half of what it was and dropping like a rock, and so you know, you maybe used to be able to point your finger at different neighborhoods, you know inner city or whatever, and say, man, look at that poor city, look what's going on to those families, but it's widespread now. I mean, you can go out into the rural areas, you can go to the ghetto downtown, it just doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:
And all of the same things are happening when the dad leaves or when we have what I'll refer to as a bad dad. All the same symptoms seem to come out of that, and so what we're going to talk about today is, hey, we need our dads, we need our strength, but what does that really look like? So what would it look like, even if you're in a divorce situation right, I mean, we'd like to avoid that, but we do know those happen Even if that's the case, what would the behavior and the character of the dad look like.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and I know the show is going to trigger some women, some, some ladies who did not have a father in the home or, like you said, a bad dad who really wasn't emotionally present, maybe physically there, maybe even provided for them physically, but emotionally were disconnected, or even harmful or abusive.
Speaker 1:
And so if that's your story, then we want you to keep listening, because here's what we know. If you don't have a good dad story, if you don't didn't have a strong dad in the home with you growing up, the tendency and the likelihood of what you're going to choose and what you're going to do and put in your life whether it be with a spouse, boyfriend even raising children is going to be harder, and so we want to give you that's part of the work we do. We know there's a lot of people that did not experience healthy growing up. They come into our office every day and they'll say I don't even know what that looks like, I don't know how to be a good husband, I don't know how to be a good dad, and so we're trying to give you some resources, and this is one of them what does a strong dad look like? And we're going to God's word to find out.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you know, there's something that comes to mind. We see a lot in our culture and our generation today, and I have a little saying that I use in my work.
Speaker 2:
Sometimes that is you know, boys create babies and men raise the babies. You know. So just about any young and I say boy childlike mind you know, once he is of puberty age and beyond, he can produce a child. But that's not really what the significant matter is about. It's like, what are you going to do once you produce that child? So who's going to raise it? And so that's really where the character traits of the man come in.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
Yeah Well, we're not going to read the whole story of the prodigal son or the story of the lost son, sometimes Right, but you can find this story in Luke, chapter 15.
Speaker 1:
And if you don't know, the story basically a father had Give us the paraphrase A father had two sons and one of them kind of followed the rules and did what he was told, and you know. And the other son was a rebellious son and he he wanted his inheritance ahead of time. He basically was like wanted to kind of go live his way, right. So, his dad gave him his inheritance and that other son, that prodigal son, went and just kind of lived it up and kind of spent it all and then found himself literally in a pig's pen, like literally feeding among the pigs.
Speaker 1:
He realized like what the heck have I done?
Speaker 2:
Right.
Speaker 1:
Like, and while the other brother was home doing his job.
Speaker 2:
Right.
Speaker 1:
And so the prodigal son comes home, the father opens his arms and receives that son and literally throws a party for him, like he cause. He thought he was dead, he thought he had lost his son forever and he received that son with love. And then we have the other brother, who was resentful and bitter and jealous that, hey, I've done this the right way and you're giving him a party. And so there's a lot of different dynamics here and we're today going to really focus on the Father here.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have different characters. It's a parable, guys, and so remember what the parable. The parable is not a true story. It is a story where Jesus is trying to put a human understanding on God, either qualities or desires that he wants for us or our behavior, and so, in this case, the father actually is manifesting the role of God the father, god the father. So he's really describing here how he is going to be right.
Speaker 1:
And so with us yeah, with either son you know, you, I was the rule, the rule follower, yeah, and so I would kind of get jealous at how people were succeeding or being rewarded for bad behavior when I, like, followed the rules right, and you know, and so I I kind of had that other brother syndrome you know. And then you know you were the prodigal. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:
You were the good kid too, but you know, I had my moments too. I wasn't that perfect, for sure, but you know. So he really is trying to show us. Jesus tells the story to help us understand how our heavenly father loves us and how he treats us as his children.
Speaker 2:
Yeah. So let's look at some of the characteristics, and when you say these, because even though we want these characteristics for our dads, dads out there, these are actually for all of us, and especially you and a parent, a parental role, okay, and so this first one is kind of like, I'll say, the old standby. You hear this all the time, especially in the parenting and really the christian world the father is one of unconditional love, unconditional love. So no matter how much this young punk son of his is rebelling and probably had, you know, just such a chip on his shoulder, give me my money, I'm out of here, I'm sick of all of you. So, no matter how harsh and hard that kid came out, the father just he's going to love the kid.
Speaker 2:
Now we want to be clear here. We're not talking about loving the kid's choices Like this is not okay, honey. I think this is okay that you do this. That's not what we're saying, that's permissiveness and that's another side of bad parenting.
Speaker 1:
And affirming which this world today is. If you don't affirm what I do, you don't agree with my choices then you hate me.
Speaker 1:
And so we're not saying that, because this happens a lot with families today, where a child can rebel against a parent's faith and you know their beliefs, and so if they step outside, some parents will disown them, they will literally cut them off, and I'm just telling you, as a follower of Jesus Christ, that is not what he's asking us to do. This, this story completely tells that he allows the child to make those choices, whether he agrees with them or not, but that the unconditional love is still there. And so please, mom and dad, you're going to have kids who rebel against your faith and don't agree with your decisions and belief systems, but that doesn't mean you should reject them. Or, you know, some people would say you're dead to me because you don't believe in my God or you don't follow my God's rules, and that's not how God works.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you know, we want to be cautious here too, to say hey, in a parenting role, we, linda and I, do believe in calling out the sin or the potential choice that's going to be made, like when we're talking to our 16-year-old and he gives us what he wants to go do if we don't agree with it. It's not that we're going to sit back and go, okay, just bite our tongue. We're going to say no, we really don't think that that's a good idea or that's a good choice. And so we still are addressing the choices. We're addressing, you know, the possible decisions, but at the end of the day, we have to be careful.
Speaker 2:
You and I both have been guilty of this time where you get so mad, you get so angry, a choice has been made, an action has been taken and you say something like you're ridiculous for doing this and we have to be careful, because that's putting a whole bubble of ridiculous around the entire person, shaming them, right, but you're characterizing that entire person. You are stupid, you are dumb, you are a loser, you are, you know you as a person, versus you know what you're getting ready to do is not a very smart decision, okay. So again, unconditional love. Don't get it confused. It's not this permissiveness of you just nodding your head, yes to everything that your kid wants to do.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I talk all the time because women come in feeling that shame, they're heaped with shame and so guilt is I made a mistake, and so you can say, no, that was wrong, or you know that's not allowed in our home. Okay, guilt. But then the shame is you are a mistake, and so that's what we don't want to say. Like you said, the choices versus the person. So the unconditional love is one thing that the prodigal son's father really showed us in this story.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, okay, let's go to the second one. So our God, the father, and us as parents and our fathers, we are, and I'm going to put some disclaimers on this this father allowed the existence and function of free will. Okay, and man, that's hard, it's hard, that is so hard, especially for adult children over the age of 18.
Speaker 1:
Where they can, they can make those decisions and you have no control over it. Yeah, and, and sometimes they're in your home still, and so that's a hard thing like, okay, we're gonna let this in our home, right? Okay, you have free will, even teenagers who think they know everything, right.
Speaker 2:
Like yeah, do we?
Speaker 1:
yeah, do we let that happen?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and so my disclaimer that you know we're putting on this is guys, don't think this is Well, whatever junior wants to do back to that permissiveness.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you know, we oftentimes talk about the age of accountability, right, the age of accountability. And the age of accountability really starts to go into the idea of, okay, you're explaining what you're doing, I'm going to explain to you the potential consequences you have recognized and show that you understand those consequences. Okay, you realize, if you do this, you'll lose your phone for the next week. You realize this. And if your kid says, I know, I know, I know I'll lose my phone, okay, then at that point you start to let the free will happen. Okay, so the age of accountability, or the age of understanding of what is coming their way, is what we're talking about. And if, if your kid can actually grasp that, then you say, okay, then we're going to let this roll. Okay. And especially as we get into those teen years and those late teen years, you know, yeah, it's hard, but that's when we let go more and more where we're saying, hey, ok as long as you know.
Speaker 1:
And you bring up a great point of the age of accountability. Unfortunately, as parents, we have become so permissive and stepped back in our role in such a big way when it comes to things that are scary and unhealthy for them as young children and I'm talking mostly about social media and the worldwide web and, like age six and seven, those kids are saying well, I want a phone, I know I can take care of it. And then we just let them do it. And they're not, they're not ready. That is not a healthy decision as a parent. Okay, we're not talking about a six-year-old. We're not ready. Right, that is not a healthy decision as a parent. Ok, we're not talking about a six year old, we're talking about a 16 year old who should understand and, yes, is going to be held accountable. It is up to the age of accountability.
Speaker 2:
And so we got to be careful at what age we kind of let go yeah, yeah. So well then, that would lead us to the third point. Yeah, well, then that would lead us to the third point. Ok, so I wrote down is the little title for this point is patient trust versus aggressive chase.
Speaker 2:
And so this is just that whole idea of Sometimes, when we're working with parents and we see that things with their teenagers especially, are really going down the tubes quickly, especially when we have divorce situations where the parents start to get played against each other and you even have this thing called parental alienation, where you have parents working against each other.
Speaker 2:
And the next thing, you know, this kid is almost saying to one of their parents you are dead to me. And the parent who's getting hurt by this is just they don't know what to do, like, do I just sit back and let this happen or do I double down and no matter what? Okay, then I'm going to hold back all of your allowance, I'm going to stop this. I'm going to do that. And they aggressively chased to want to grab them and saying you will be in a relationship with me.
Speaker 2:
And the point being here is sometimes you've got to play the long game. And in the prodigal son story you have the father who shows us the wisdom of looking for the long game. And this takes trust and faith. Right Like this dad did not run after her, he did not try to threaten Shame and guilt. You're right, he did not do these things. I'm sure you know the reality of it is is anyways. He'd be like, oh my gosh, what can I do to convince you otherwise? But he lets them go and he, at that point, he trusts.
Speaker 1:
I probably would have had some sleepless nights.
Speaker 2:
I'm not going to lie, yeah, and I'm, you know, I'm sure that the reality is we would roll and toss and turn, and I think even God probably rolls and tosses and turn on us, Are you?
Speaker 1:
ever going to put in?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, how long do I have to be patient with you? So that's that patient trust versus that aggressive. I'm just going to chase you, I'm going to force you back into the relationship with me.
Speaker 1:
Good point Practice, patience. The fourth one is un ending desire for restoration. And, man, I'm telling you this is such an important one because when our hearts get hardened, whether that person comes back with remorse or repentance or changes their ways sometimes we've said you're dead to me, you know there's no hope of restoration and God is going to judge us in that moment. Because that is where we've got to stay ready and willing for restoration. Again, there's a huge difference between forgiveness and trust, and so you may not trust a word they say. They may have to prove to them that they can be trustworthy. Maybe they're in addiction or maybe there's been betrayal.
Speaker 1:
Trustworthy, maybe they're in addiction or maybe there's been betrayal, but the desire we've got to keep our hearts softened toward the thought of restoration, like the prodigal son's father did.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and he keeps wanting it right. He keeps wanting it to the end, and it's always that desire. It's a hunger that fathers have. They want to make things right with their kids. So number five is don't get it confused with unconditional love, although it probably falls under an umbrella, but this is unconditional forgiveness.
Speaker 2:
So you may always love your kid, but once your kid starts to come back around, you know, sometimes we want people to pay for what they've done.
Speaker 2:
That hurt us and and so we even look at you know our younger kids, and when they've done something wrong and we'll say, well, you know our younger kids, and when they've done something wrong, we'll say, well, you know, before you do anything, you need to apologize. You know you put a demand in, and I'm not saying that that's wrong or bad, but in this case of the prodigal son, it would have been so easy for the father to let the son come up the road and the father to go out with excitement, you know, and just being very earnest to see his kid, but to say hey, you know, son, before I can really let you in, you need to say a few things like you need to own your part and you need to show me that you've owned your part. And God's not doing this here. In this case he's. He's doing an unconditional forgiveness. He doesn't even the son wants to tell him how he's done everything wrong and he's sorry for what he's done, but like the father's not demanding any of that stuff.
Speaker 2:
And so the idea here is, when your kids are ready to come into relationship with you, be really careful about having your checklist of the things that they have to do to be back into your good graces. Right, we don't earn the good graces God gives those with that unconditional forgiveness, so that's a good point.
Speaker 1:
It's not like you have to sit there for a three hour lecture before you know. I'm feeling convicted for sure, and but a strong dad is going to do the things that the prodigal son's father did. And that is that unconditional respect, knowing that God has forgiven him much, and so God has forgiven us much, and so he's calling us to forgive much. Still, trust has to be earned right, and that's something we work on. But the love and the forgiveness is unconditional.
Speaker 1:
And man, that's a strong dad and that's a hard thing to be, I got to you know, you and I both admit like that's hard for us sometimes as humans, but this is what our Heavenly Father does to us and that's what he's asking us to do to others, especially our children.
Speaker 2:
it is so important that we celebrate the work of God and that we celebrate Sometimes when we see a kid finally come back in or we see a marriage finally restored, and sometimes we want to give credit to all the people.
Speaker 2:
But I mean, and we do need to give credit to people, because it's them that decides whether they're going to let their heart be open to it. But God works on people's hearts. He keeps giving this gnawing of. I just need to make it right, I need to make it better and when, when you have restoration, celebrate it, celebrate it. You know, there there are angels cheering in heaven for every saved person, right, and so every time there's a baptism, there's like angel party, you know. And so the idea here is, um, we should celebrate these things and and we should let our kid know that, man, when you came back, it was amazing, it was awesome, and so that keeps the excitement going, it keeps the energy going and it keeps, kind of, the thanks. With the celebration there's always a thanks, man, thank you for this happening. Now let's have some fun.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, honey, that's so funny. As you're describing that celebration, I'm thinking of a lot of couples, a lot of couples who have been betrayed. One partner has walked away, has, um, you know, betrayed their partner and the the way that that other partner received that, whether their heart was softened and they were willing to forgive and willing to love and willing to receive them back and restore the relationship. That is just a picture of the gospel and I love this.
Speaker 1:
So it's not just a father son relationship, it is really any relationship that is important to you and when there's been betrayal, when there's been people that have deserted you or abandoned you and there's a lot of adults right now who are walking around with hurt still from abandonment and rejection, whether it be by a spouse, whether it be by a parent, and that has really hardened their hearts and kind of created these defense mechanisms and I'm just telling you that healing is possible. I've seen it, We've seen it and that's what God wants for us. So please let the story of the prodigal son be a message to you, whether you're a father or you know, have a father in your life or not right now, but that is something we can be in relationship with anybody.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I'm going to put a little note on this too. And why is this the story of the prodigal son and discussing and centering around the father and not the mother? I mean, because we're talking about parenting and it's not that to all sure change the mother at all in any of this. But it also speaks to the strength of the father in these young boys' life, in this story, the strength of the father that you see, and that's why we see.
Speaker 2:
You know, I started the show with the idea that 70% of the families had mom and dad both in the house. And now we're down with, you know, dad's trickling in and out kind of at will, and it's that father figure that has left the story of the prodigal son. They've just left and left moms up there to try to figure it out. And so I think it's really essential to understand that it is the strength of dad, it's the masculine strength that these kids are going to, you know, they're going to look at and they're going to, they're going to respond to differently, man, if dad's upset or dad's loving me, you know, like whatever dad's doing is coming with a little higher level of of of just whatever connection to the kids.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so important. So hopefully this helps. Again, this is kind of our series on parables. We are going to be entering a series soon on questions from the audience, so if you have a question for us, you can actually submit it anonymously. You can go to our Facebook page and there's a little spot where you can enter your question and we can address it on air. And so maybe it's something you're embarrassed, shameful to come in and talk. We've gotten some good ones already, but if you want it to be addressed on the air, please submit it. You can again go to our Facebook page and find that question and answer series and we would love to answer your questions yeah, looking forward to those.
Speaker 2:
Those are always uh, those are good shows because they're actually real. Somebody's out there listening going.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, hey, that's my question, so that's sure so we thank you so much for listening to the rock solid families podcast. If you are listening to us and you need some parenting help we've talked about parents today we actually do a monthly parenting class called Families Rock, every fourth Saturday of the month at the Lawrenceburg Firehouse in Lawrenceburg, indiana, and the next one is June 22nd. So depending on when you're listening to this, it's always the fourth Saturday at 830 to 12. You can find more information on our website at rocksolidfamiliesorg.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 2:
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