Ronay

Although he’s just a kid, eight year old Ronay has all the ear-marks of greatness.  With his gap-tooth smile always at the ready he makes friends easily; with a confidence born of experience he makes decisions easily; and with a work ethic that John Calvin would admire he’s already making money easily.

With all these gifts you’d think Ronay would be any father’s dream, but there’s the problem.  Ronay is also fatherless.  And without a dad to keep him in line, street smart and charming are not gifts in urban America.  So Ronay serves his community as a drug dealer who pimps his teenage sisters on the side.

Being incredibly blessed and gifted has never been a guarantee for success.  Just ask the Corinthians of the early church. Full of Paul’s foundational truth, watered by Apollo’s scriptural insight, and tutored by Peter, Corinth should have been a model church.  And it was, if you wanted to know how not to act.

Which is why Paul wrote them that unless they had a father, willing not only to teach them, but to unconditionally love them, to sacrifice all for them, and to literally die for them: they had not a father.

Is God calling you to be that kind of dad for one of His children?