What Does It Profit a Driven Dad?

Imagine checking off every goal on your list. The business grew, the numbers hit, the house got bigger. But in all those years you never once prayed with your kids or opened the Bible with them. What was it all for?

Jesus asked a version of that question: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” It is a question about your own soul first. But a father has to ask it about his children’s souls too.

Paul gives fathers a clear job: “bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Not just provide for them. Bring them up in the Lord.

That doesn’t take a seminary degree. It takes showing up: praying at the table, reading a few verses at bedtime, letting them see you love God. Of all the goals on your list, this is the one that lasts.