Honesty

 Today I am really struggling, I am at a juncture in my life and I am finding it harder and harder to get past what is being taught from the pulpit and what I know to be true. Maybe I am just being to caught up in my own thoughts, maybe I am just lost in the way I thought it should be to or maybe I am just crazy, I am not sure. I figured I would just put it out here, because I don't know. Not many people read this anymore, I actually only think one person reads this now and I thank you for that, you know who you are. :) 

What is being pushed is that we go into the world and preach the gospel, which I agree with, I have no problem with that. That we serve in our community which I also agree with that, but at what cost? What I am talking about, they have taken the emphasis off the home, the have placed it on the unsaved, but I believe that we will reach more people with a solid home foundation, than a broken home. If we are jeopardizing the foundation of our homes and doing things that break our marriages, break our families, doesn't that go against what is first and foremost? I don't know, I see some bad things happening, they are pushing so much to make people believers, they are missing the very thing that people believe in, they are missing the love of God, the truth of who God is. God wants a solid foundation and He wants a solid home life.

I was thinking this morning, look at the the early 70's, 80's and 90's how many preachers kids do you know? How many of them have walked away from God? Is it because the Father was to busy to be a Father to them? I think God has called us to a place to be home for a families first, get your house in order first, then feed my sheep, not the other way around, because He will honor the ones that put Him first. Those that are honoring everyone else before the ones that should be the ones that are most important to them, what does God say to that? Yes, that was their choice, but it was also their choice to be married, have kids and so on. Isn't high time that we build our houses correctly and isn't high time that we teach it correctly so that when we go into the world, we can teach them how to as well?

We don't teach the world by example, by saying do as I say, not as I do. We teach them by saying do as I say and do as I do. We are the example, we are what they look at. Our words mean nothing, if our actions do not portray what we speak. Isn't it high time that our actions represent a Christ follower, not just our words? It doesn't matter if I say all the right things, but when I get home my home is falling apart, my kids have no respect, my house is just a image of perfection and that is all it is, because it was taken from a fairy tale, because people see through the lies. It is high time we fix our homes and once our homes are in order, we will be effective in ministering the gospel to others. 

I am sure there are rare cases this will not work, but in those cases that is between them on God, but in the cases that both are followers of Christ, then put Christ first, fix the home life, fix the marriage, fix it be who God calls you to be and then you will be the effective team that God calls you to be.

A house will crumble without a foundation. Build the foundation, maintain the foundation, without it, the house will fall. It is so important it to keep the foundation in order. The devil wants the foundation to crumble, that is what he goes after, it is easy to forget about because it isn't seen, but that is the most important thing. When that isn't in order our lives will be in chaos, if your life is in chaos, look at your foundation are their cracks in it? Repair the cracks, shore up the foundation, fix the issues, before the house crumbles. 

Make sure your foundation is solid and your house is in order, because people will see the truth of who you are. A marriage counselor can't be a good marriage counselor if their own marriage is crumbling. Just the same with our own lives, what do our lives look like, are we a good witness for Christ? That is the bottom line, do people know from how we treat the people we are with? How our homes look? Etc...