Abraham--- Genesis 12:10-20, Genesis 20
Isaac--- Genesis 26
So through spiritual fathers we have both good and bad things passed down to us. So it would seem that we are just to take the good and bad and live with them both. However, God has called us to be "holy as he is holy" (1 Peter 1:16). So how can we achieve this if we have to take the good and the bad from our spiritual fathers? The answer is to put ourselves in a position to be "fathered by God". The benefit of this is that God is perfect and has no bad characteristics in him.
The Bible says in 1 Samuel 3 that Eli "was lying down in his own place" and Samuel "was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was." So here we have Samuel living with Eli (who was the High Priest at the time) who is supposed to be the closest man to God in Israel but is doing his own thing and serving God when it is convenient for him. This could have been very detrimental to Samuel's prophetic destiny, but Samuel placed himself to be fathered by God. (1 Samuel 3:3) The result of this is seen later in this chapter where we read, "The Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words fall to the ground." Which is something no other human has ever done for another human...
Joshua--- Exodus 33:11
Samuel--- 1 Samuel 3
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And therefore if a child does not spend time in his father’s then he does not pick up his traits. If there is little or no time at all spent communing with one another how will the son know of the father’s character, not just what he has heard from outside sources. The father has an awesome responsibility to care for the family. The children in exchange need be respectful. In this they win his favor. Persons from ‘dysfunctional’ home and ‘normal’ homes alike find it hard to believe that there could be a Father that waits for His child to want to know more about Him. There is and He has so much to give.
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Romans 8:15-17
Psalm 103:13
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