While we mostly remember Job as a model believer suffering in his pilgrimmage toward heaven, there is some insight for us in his role as father.  Job 1:1-4 tells us (in the New International Version): In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2He had seven sons and three daughters, 3and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. 4His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job's regular custom. 
     Only Jesus could actually offer an atoning sacrifice on behalf of others, but doesn't it tell us alot about Job's heart and his lvoe for his children that he was eager to do whatever was in his power to support his children in a right relationship with God? As we approach Father's Day, let this be a lesson to all you dads out there! Be at least as interested in where “Junior” spends eternity as Job was: that's Job 1 for Fathers!