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The Right Start

The first step to real manhood is spiritual rebirth—“You must be born again” (John 3:7). The most crucial need of every family is a father whose heart is indwelt by Christ. 

Why?

Because by nature, you’re spiritually dead, for “your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God” (Isa. 59:2). You can’t recognize who the Lord created you to be for your family—or even what your family needs from you—because you’re completely severed from His presence by your transgressions and cannot receive His guidance.

Therefore, you must believe that Jesus went to the cross to die for your sins and that His sacrifice was sufficient to reconcile you to the Father. When you tell Jesus that His death on the cross was sufficient payment for your sins and ask Him to come into your heart to forgive you, cleanse you, and indwell you, He comes into your life at that moment, and your salvation is guaranteed through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13-14). 

The husband is the head of his home, and when Christ comes into his heart, he is fully equipped to be his family’s spiritual leader. He has the indwelling Christ to help him become the total man he needs to be. 

Friend, if you are without Christ, you have deprived your family of the one thing they need above everything else—spiritual leadership. However, if you’re a man of God, then the Lord can make you into everything your family needs—a man who has the wisdom, grace, and power to take care of them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. There is no substitute for a saved husband and father.