A Thought for the Day – 073 – A sliver of Hope!
Have you noticed the DOW lately, in the midst of the erratic rise and
fall of this economic yardstick people are watching their retirement kindle and
dwindle on the same day; also their mortgages slide low one minute and fly high
the next. Then if you listen to those in the know they say; but listen to the
final bell; all is well! Solomon says: “he who loves silver will not be
satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is
vanity. Ecclesiastes 5:9
Comments and challenges
I was
recently talking with my oldest son about life, raising a family and the issues
we run into along the way. One of his comments went like this, “well no one
gave us a rule book to raise a family”. There is right and wrong in this
statement, it is the same statement that I made around his age years ago. But
first let me say that raising a family is the hardest task given to man by man.
Did you
get that; first what man passes on to man from one generation to another is ALL
VANITY and chasing after the wind. From the man’s heart (that would be his
central intelligence center) as his children are growing up he knows that he is
failing them. From this same center, he realizes that he has failed as a
husband too. The only area of success, which also comes out of his heart is the
ability to agree with the other men that they are doing the best they can with
no rule book.
Then to
add fuel to this way of existing, there are those who write books on the
subject of family and the responsibilities within; some of these people do not
have a wife or husband and some do not have children too, yet by ungodly reasoning
we believe their nonsense and family raising is substituted for the village and
community based efforts.
There
is a rule book, or better said; there is a Book to love and raise children, a
Book to love your wife, a Book to love your country and a Book to love God. It is
called the Holy Bible; just listen to Psalm 127.
Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain
who build it; unless the LORD guards the city; the watchman stays awake in
vain. It is vain to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows;
for so He (God) gives to His beloved sleep.
Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the
fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of the warrior, so are
the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
Now
there is a deeper study to be done in this Psalm but everything pertaining to
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness (which is; every man’s goal in life) is
written out clearly in this Psalm. We as fathers of children and husband to our
wives have failed because as a nation we are not the watchman of God, we are
the watchman of vanity. We do not have a quiver full of children, thus our
national heritage is being given to another nation right under our nose.
Some may
think this is a sad commentary; but not so. Gideon’s Army was reduced from 32,000
people to 300, Judges 7:1-25 God does not need an army to defeat Satan’s
destructive forces of men and women who are bent to do evil, (Romans 1:18-32
and Ecclesiastes 5:11-20). Those of us who will acknowledge God’s gift to
mankind, (a small remnant) can charge our national free fall and return to God
as He directs. Ecclesiastes 5:6-20. http://www.biblos.com
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