A Father’s Job: The Real Meaning of Traveling to Hell and Back
The meaning of Ephesians 5 love: Would you risk it all to save another soul?
Big Daddy felt complete on stage, so he jumped at the chance to play in North Carolina but panicked when his family said he needed to be home too.
Big Daddy faced one of those classic Ephesians 5 choices:
- Do your job. Be the provider and the “big man” of the family, bringing home the money and the glory.
- Submit. Humble yourself, be a supportive (yet almost invisible) parent, and applaud your child as she graduates from high school back home.
The answer: He’d do his job in North Carolina. Then, as soon as it ended, he’d get in his car and drive 700 miles all night through the scariest mountain highways of North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia so he could be there for the graduation in Michigan.
He was exhausted but downed his Red Bull, playing old songs to stay awake. He made it just in time, sitting anonymously in the bleachers but doing his parental duty and applauding and cheering as a voice whispered:
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6, ESV)
