What Kind of Example are you

What Kind of Example are you

Over the past year I have been in a place where I have not made the best choices in my life.  I got caught up in Body Building.  Bodybuilding was my life and I was doing everything I could do to succeed in this. I was at the gym at 4am and then again at 6pm. It was all about me and my desires. I also got caught in things that I should have not caught up in. These things only made me think about me and what’s I wanted. Yes I succeeded at this and change my body to compete and place in shows. People would say to me WOW you are so dedicated and I wish I could do that. What people didn’t see is who I was letting down. Not only was I letting down myself that I didn’t see but most important I was letting down my daughters. My daughters lost their dad I was not in a good place and it was all about me. I was not showing them the Godly example I taught them to be for so long. What they saw was a man who put God in the corner and was only focusing about himself. My daughter distanced themselves from me that I didn’t see because it was all about me.  I was not the most loving dad I should have been. I was not showing them the Godly Father that God called me to be.  When I put bodybuilding aside and stop the things I was doing it was then I found myself in such a dark place.  I saw how I was acting and the decisions I made were not the best examples for my daughters.  It was on a Saturday that I found myself in such a dark place I just wanted God to take me home and if he didn’t I would help him.  It was a place that I never want to be again in my life.  It was a place on God could bring me out of.  I realized that my actions were not Godly examples and I was not going to live this life knowing I was not being the example to my kids that God called me to be. So I had to make a decision to let God bring me back to be the dad my daughters knew or continue to live in the black hole. So I found myself allowing God to bring me up from this dark place to be the example I needed to be.

So what kind of example are you? This brings me to Titus 2:7 “in everything set them an example by doing what is good.”  What kind of example are you? Are you the kind of man or woman whose life serves as a powerful example of decency and morality? Are you a man or woman whose behavior serves as a positive role model for others? Are you the kind of person whose fidelity, and love for the lord? If so, you are not only blessed by God, you are also a powerful force for good in the world that desperately needs positive influences such as yours. Phillips brooks advised, “ be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be Gods paradise.” And that’s sound advice because our families and friends are watching…. And so, for that matter, is God.

 

Don’t be like me and love for yourself and almost lose things that are so close to you. I look at my daughters a think, was I that the kind of man I want them to marry or is the man the God called me to be the one I want them to marry. I am not saying I a perfect by no means I have made a lot mistakes in my life but the questions is what did I learn from them and now how will God use them not only to teach my daughter but to teach others.  My kids have seen the Godly Dad, or the Dad that that strives for worldly things, and now I want them to see the Godly dad I was. So what are you showing your kids because remember they will grow up watching you.