Leaving Dad; Fathering from Genesis 2

Fathering from Genesis 2  
Moses writes in verse 24 of Chapter 2 that ' a man will leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh'. You may conclude that there is nothing groundbreaking in this early passage in the Book of Genesis and I would agree. We should note though the early reference to parenting includes both dad and mom.  A man is to leave both his father and his mother when he launches into a new season of marriage. Fatherhood was part of God's Plan from the very beginning. It is part of His Plan A. Anything else is Plan B. God intended there to be a significant bonding between parent and son that needed to change when the young man moved on. This bonding was designed to be with both father and mother. This bonding is physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. A young man is designed to have this type of connection with both his father and his mother before he begins his own family.

We live in a broken world and in a culture that has lost it's way and so the ideal of God's Design is not always there for the young man. This does not mean that we ignore what God intended but rather push back against the culture and against the brokenness caused by sin and ask God in faith to build our families according to his original design. Plan A is His Idea. Let's pursue it with everything we have.