From the beginning, there is a tension in this story: as police officers, these men bravely faced gangsters , drug dealers... They are undoubtedly brave in such an identity. Although they are old, they still run hard and chase criminals. However, as the sheriff reported, these officers were mainly dealing with children from families that lacked parental love. And when these police officers are in their own homes, their other, more important identity—the child’s father—is embarrassing (perhaps we might say crisis-ridden). Adam has a close relationship with his daughter, but he doesn't have the courage to dance with her. At the same time, he is disappointed with his son's performance, so he doesn't care about him at all, and he doesn't want to run 5km with his son (for the escaped criminal, he is desperate Run); Sean divorced his wife and had to pay a lot of alimony to his son, but couldn't spend time with him; David had an illegitimate daughter but never fulfilled his father's responsibilities; Nansen worried about his 15-year-old daughter Hang out with bad boys. If these cops can't be good fathers, then there's actually a huge rift between the two identities. And we can say that as fathers, they are creating troubled youth; as police, they are arresting troubled youth. So, we have to ask: how can this crack be repaired? How to break this vicious circle?
In their first gathering of four "Police-Fathers", they shared that they themselves grew up in a family of failed fathers, and they had no example to follow. Now, is history going to repeat itself?
Nansen asked a question at this time: "I don't know where all the good dads have gone?"
The lack of a father's role is a wound that cannot be healed in our era.
Then again, how can we break the shackles of sin? Who can guide and help this group of heartbroken fathers? Who will restore the lost fatherly love in the family?
It's been a mystery for now.
But sinners are by nature accustomed to living in a seemingly stable state. Anyway, every family has this problem, so let's go through it like this. They never reflect on their embarrassing situation since, let alone take action to make a change!
However, the story is shaken by an event, and no one can be silent anymore! For death is upon them! The beautiful sunshine princess has passed away! Adam and his wife Victoria felt trapped in the deep darkness they had been in, but were awakened by grief.
Adam: I should have been a good dad. I should've been a better father.
Victoria: No. You are still a dad. No, you're still a father.
By the way, at the end of this dialogue, the camera shows a sentence on Emily's bedside: My prince did come, his name is Daddy. It's a pity that this prince is not brave enough to save the princess (If we say that every child is a princess and every father is a prince).
Through this painful event, Adam began to ponder a question: What kind of father does God want me to be? (In a conversation with the pastor, Adam said, "I wanna know what God expects of me as a father.")
When Adam started studying the Bible, he concluded: I have to do these hard things. ("I'm accepting the fact I have to learn how to do the hard things.")
When he first made changes in his own home, his son was also changed, saying: "I wish I would've been a better brother." He asked a question similar to his father's—one's role in the family, one father, one brother.
At this point we see a wonderful consolation. It was Adam's words to comfort his son, and it was as if God spoke to Adam through Adam's own mouth: "I love you, and you are my son."
Then we see the second meeting in the whole story. At this meeting, Adam proposed a resolution. The content of the resolution he proposed, according to Adam himself, was learned from the Bible.
Gradually, we see clearly the answer to the previous question: except the Father of Lights, the Abba Father who knows all things, controls all things, comforts those who suffer, and heals the wounded, who else can make up for what is missing? What about fatherly love? His love is the source of all fatherly love, his wisdom is the source of all fatherly wisdom, and his power is the source of all fatherly power.
Now, thanks to God's comfort, Adam has come out of the pain of losing his daughter, and God also used the pain of losing his daughter to break Adam, reshape Adam's life, and make Adam walk into his own missing identity. Pain and true sin are disarmed. At this time, Adam became the real father, the real policeman; of course, this is all because God Himself is the most real father and the policeman who destroys all sins.
Next, all the covenanted fathers made changes, except for Sean. The fathers began to confront the past, re-examine unhealed wounds, and pray for God's healing. Then they act again, for the future! Adam runs with his son and exhorts him to trust God; Nansen begins to communicate with his daughter, who begins to understand his father's love; David takes immediate action after accepting Jesus as Lord of his life to reconnect with his hurt girlfriend and daughter in the past The right relationship; Harvey overcame temptation at work too; only Sean failed. He failed not because he did not act, but because he acted, he failed. Because in his actions, he did not rely on God, but only on himself to solve the problem by using illegal means. As a policeman, he did not overcome evil, but was overcome by evil.
At the end of the story, these "brand new" fathers testify in the church and invite every father to be brave! At this time, we can almost make a small summary.
God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God. At the beginning full of confusion and problems, but because of a deeper difficulty, we have entered a new situation. We can only praise God’s wonderful actions, which we cannot measure!
A man of God should be totally dependent on God! Courage is acknowledging one's own inadequacies and relying on the grace of God. Each of his identities is manifested by the fact that he lives before God as a child of God. Work and family are not divided, but both should be built according to God's will.
A good father should be full of courage, and he needs company! In the world he was a warrior, and his courage was accompanied by the Father in heaven and by fellow travelers on earth.
Finally, a sentence as a summary: The only way to be manly is to be godly. ——Larry Crabb
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