Most celebrations of Fathers Day are sentimental superficial, and emotional.
A Father's true love for his children is sacrificial and costly. Fathers raise us, provide for us, protect us, discipline us, and teach us our values.
All this costs time, money, concern, and sweat. If done right, a father's care for his children is a sacrifice.
Sadly, children are oblivious to the cost of a father's love. All they care about are the fun times and cheap gifts, while the true sacrifice goes unnoticed and unappreciated.
Children completely miss the bulk of what it means to love a child until they grow up and find out how much these things really cost a father.
Thoughtful children, as they mature, will spend the rest of their lives coming to appreciate a father's sacrificial love.
A puzzle then arises: how does an exceedingly rich man show true sacrificial love toward his children, when the cost of what he gives to them is negligible?
How does someone like President Trump, or any other wealthy man, exercise the ideal love toward their children? The children of such men often struggle with the idea that their father doesn't love them because he never sacrifices for them. Perhaps spending valuable time is the only way in which a wealthy man can show true love for his children.
God's love might be thought of as such a cheap love, since God has all power and infinite resources. How can He display sacrificial love toward us?
The world desires just such a cheap love from God - that He would shower them with good things, but not require any further interaction with them.
God's love is ideal, because He spared not His own son, but delivered Him up to save us! |
