To build a family is to change a generation

What does that mean exactly? Have you ever watched some one build a house? The more time, detail and love the builder puts into the home, the more it can with stand. When he just hastily slops some walls up, slaps some shingles on, the more likely it is going to fall apart.

The more time, detail and love you put into a family the longer it will stand and change the way your children view family and life.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Where is God Now?

  If God is so very good, than why do bad things happen?  Where is He? How did He allow this to happen?  As these question envelop us and our mind swirls with a million more questions, where do we turn.  Do we have knee jerk reactions like that's it I am home schooling, maybe it is more we do need to get rid of all the guns, we curse those who have done it, we vow to move to another country or we denounce God completely. 
  So who is this God, everyone is praying to or cursing tonight?  
The Alpha and Omega, Creator, Word, I AM, The God who sees, The God who saves, God who is with us, The Way, The Truth, Life, The Mediator, Lion of Judah, Lamb of God, Wonderful Counselor, The Vine, The Light, Son of David,The Prince of Peace and so many others.
  How can He be the Prince of  Peace if babies are being killed in schools?  He has given them everlasting peace, and peace to the parents of those who lost a child. He is the one weeping with those parents.
   How long can we continually turn our back on his ways before He says enough! We have chose to remove him as our moral compass, we have removed Him from all public places, we have removed him from our hearts for foreign gods, we do not teach our children about Him, we have told society we are closed minded if we really believe in God.  We kill thousands of babies a day in the name of choice,  the list goes on.  So how do we question God when we have tried so hard to erase Him from this place? 
  Israel did over and over, God corrected them over and over, from exile, famines, oppression, and silence.  Why?  Because He loves them.  He always remembered them after a season and sent a redeemer. Some one to rescue His people.  Why, us?  Because He loves us.  For us to reap the blessing of a gracious God we need to be a country of his people.  Not ones that say they are and have no fruits. Not one that only wants him to show up in time of need, but one who loves God of their free will. When we  pick and chose what we would like to believe about God and who He is.  We will never  know and understand him completely.  He is a good God, even when we do not understand him. He is a jealous God who wants all of us all the time. He wants us to be His, not this worlds.
He has sent the ultimate redeemer, Jesus. So we to can have God's grace and in abundance, only we chose to trust in Him.
  We have made thousands of reasons not believe;
 We can not see God...
Then why do "good" people go to hell?  On whose standards do we rate their goodness?
The church is full of hypocrites. Well duh, we are sinners, there is no such thing as a perfect person.  We all have our own little hiccups.
 No one there has been or done what I have.  Wanna bet?
What makes church perfect is God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  It is not the warm bodies in the middle of it.  We are the mosaic of His perfection, each piece broken or chipped fitting together to make his master piece.
God is with us always, whether we chose to see Him or not, He is with us every step every day.  Our lives have been planned from the begining of time.  Nothing escapes Him, nothing shocks Him.  That does not mean however He doesn't weep with us. He does.