06/21/2026
If our country were invaded, about 90% of the soldiers who took up arms to defend us would be men.
If a criminal is breaking down your door and you call the police, there’s about an 85% chance the officer who shows up to put his life on the line for you will be a man.
If you need electrical work, plumbing, or welding done, about 95% of those who do such hard work are men.
If you need goods hauled from shore to shore by truck drivers, around 90% of them will be men.
Thank God for the men who do such work—and all other kinds of labor—most of whom do it to care for their wives and children. Thank God for all men who get out of bed and are off to their jobs so their families have a roof over their heads and food on the table.
Families need fathers. Daughters need dads. Sons desperately need dads. You can look up the stats that prove the deleterious effects of fatherless households. Or you can just open up the Bible and read Genesis 1-2 to see that God created a man and woman to be a husband and wife, and together to procreate and raise children.
Are men perfect? I don’t need to answer that. We all know the answer, especially us men. And the same answer applies to women. None of us are: women, men, mothers, fathers. We are all deeply flawed people, all living by the mercy of a good God.
That same merciful God has put us all together on this planet to live, to love, to work, to worship. Men do men things. Women do women things. God uses fathers in ways that mothers can never replicate. Just like he uses mothers in ways that fathers can never replicate. Parenting is not a competition between the sexes.
Today is Father’s Day. A day of gratitude for men who shoulder tremendous burdens, provide for their families, take them to church, teach their sons to be men, show their daughters that they are loved and respected, and will do whatever it takes to protect their families from harm.
Fathers. Thank God for them.
—Chad Bird
