If Your Son Was A Chip Off The Old Block

If your son was a chip off the old block

And followed the footsteps you laid

Would we know, would it show that he loved God

By laws he revered and obeyed

Would we see him reach for his Bible?

To look to his Father above

For life’s daily guidance and counsel

Would we see God’s light in his love

If your son was a chip off the old block

Inheriting more than your name

Would it make you humbly thankful?

Or sorrowfully fill you with shame

Would he be a man among men, sir?

Or ever remain just a boy

Would he, in his speech and his manner

Fulfill a father’s pride and joy

Would he be master of his vices

As he mirrors more than your face

Would he, by his words and his choices

Make this world a better place?

And, if as time passed, folk would mention

How much he is just like his dad

If your son was a chip off the old block

Would this make you happy or sad?

© Janet Martin

 
Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Prov.10:1
A wise son maketh a glad father: