What Gordon Brown Got Right
Many people may be able to point to things Gordon Brown got wrong during his time as Prime Minister but in my mind he got one thing right during his final day in office. As he left 10 Downing Street to offer his resignation to the Queen he said ‘As I leave the second most important job I could ever hold, I cherish even more the first – as a husband and father’ I don’t know where exactly Gordon Brown is regarding his self proclaimed ‘Presbyterian faith’ but in this statement he was right on the button in terms of biblical values.
It is a high calling and privilege to be a husband and a father and if we are blessed to have a wife and children they should certainly be at the top of our priority list. ‘Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church’ is what Scripture commands us and also ‘bring up your children in the training and instruction of the Lord’ Most of us, including myself, realise how often we fall short of this call and yet whatever else we achieve in this life may part of our legacy be that we demonstrated our love for God in the way that we loved and served our family.
Date: May 31, 2010
Categories: General