Vision Forum is pleased to publish this heart warming article from our good friend Miss Kelly Brown:

This little article is dedicated to my father, who wasn’t going to be content with just reading the scriptures; but in living them out every day...No matter the cost. He has inspired me to live the Holy way, and not what might seem to be the easy way.

~ I love you ~

“My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck. When you roam, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will speak with you. For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light.” (Proverbs 6:20~23)

Every time I read the above verse, I am made to stand in awe at the power of God’s word. The trueness of the scriptures is so comforting, and the seriousness of the Lords commands to us, so humbling. I have experienced this verse, and continue to experience it daily.

Through no strength of my own, God has given me a heart for the commands of my father, and the law of my mother. And I have found that as I have striven to please my earthly father, as well as my heavenly father, by obeying this verse, that not only have I obtained a heart for honoring my parents, but I have also come to make those commands and laws my own. This, my friends, is a testimony of God’s goodness.

As I observe the convictions and the passions for the things of God in my earthly father, I begin to make myself available more, in helping him. Walking beside him in his ministry; asking for ways I can help him, and pray for him. I want to know more about what he believes. I want to know why he believes, the things he does. As I come to understand more and more each day the kind of “unit” that a family is to function in, I find myself wanting to be involved more. The beautiful thing is, that as I begin supporting my father in his God given ministry, I find that his convictions, are becoming my convictions, his passions, my passions. I daily have to bind them on my heart, and tie them around my neck. (i.e. I saw how important the scriptures were to my father, and so I began studying them more, myself. I could see how seriously he took the restoration of the family in America, and so I began to read about it, talk to him about it, pray about it; and now I long for restoration too! I knew the convictions he held regarding leaving a God honoring legacy to the next generation, and so I found myself striving after that in my own life as well. I began thinking multi-generationally.

After ending a conversation, people began telling me how much they heard my father in me. “I can hear your Dad talking when I listen to you, Kelly!” They laugh, and inside, I feel ten inches taller. I want to sound like him. I want to be like him. The reason for this? I believe it is because I take seriously that verse. I know that God has given me my father for the very specific reason of guiding me through my early years of life, helping me to see clearly the very narrow road before me, and offering me a light, that will help to guide. It is the same light he uses as he walks that road; and so we walk together.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” (Helen Keller’s Journal)...

To read Kelly’s entire article please visit the Vision Forum Ministries website.