If there is a lack of love in my family, if there's a lack of commitment in my family,

then I need to be the source of that love and commitment.

What's up guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood.

One of the things Jeff and I were just talking about is I absolutely love to contemplate the Trinity.

And I'm reading this amazing book.

I'd highly recommend it. Jeff just got it called Delighting the Trinity by Michael Reeves.

And he says something about the fatherhood of God that really struck me as something that could be really helpful for us as dads. So let me read this quote to you guys. He says,

and yet while the father loves the son and the son loves the father, there is a very

definite shape to their relationship.

Overall, the father is the lover.

The son is the beloved.

The Bible is awash with talk of the father's love for the son, but while the son clearly

does love the father, hardly anything is said about it. The father's love for the son, but while the son clearly does love the father,

hardly anything is said about it. The father's love is primary, and the father is the loving

head. That then means that in his love, we will send and direct, he will send and direct the

son, whereas the son never sends or directs the father. The shape of the father-son

relationship begins a gracious cascade like a waterfall of love as the father is the lover and the

head of the son, so the son goes out to be the lover and the head of the church. As the father

has loved me, Jesus says, so have I loved you.

John 15.9. One of the things that that really struck me when I was reading that is the shape of the way that this relationship works between a father and a son, between a father and his children, or just even to think about

between a father and his family, is that do you see yourself as sort of the source of love?

In other words, you're receiving love from your heavenly father, but in your own family,

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