Trickledown

Why is the Christian family so important?

The Christian family is important because as they love, serve and obey God they are blessed. These blessings are poured down on them from God. The blessings overflow...into the church, into the community, throughout the country.

God blesses America through her people. Not the country in general.

There was a time when our country was filled with believers. I believe our country was founded by men who believed and feared the God of the Bible. This is evident in our country's documents and personal writings of the founding fathers.

God is everpresent to those who believe. (Actually isn't God everpresent for everyone...they just don't know He is there?)

Anyway...so this week when I read this:


"SHARING IN GOD'S WORK
In asking man to reproduce and fill the earth, God is asking man to help complete that which He began to do in the beginning. In giving man the responsibility to be fruitful, He allows him to participate in the creation of human life. In giving him charge over the earth, God is vesting man with some of His own authority, in effect asking man to share in His work of ruling. Man's two-part vocation is thus a reflection of God Himself. It enables him to be what he was created to be: a creature made in God's image. And it is in fulfilling this vocation that he gives praise and glory to God."
-Julie

"It enables him to be what he was created to be: a creature made in God's image. And it is in fulfilling this vocation that he gives praise and glory to God."


It all just became so clear to me. I know great books have been written on the importance of the family. But sometimes we have to see things in just our own way at the right time...to get it.

Spiritual trickledown.

As we are Blessed by God, we then bless others, especially our children.
If they are raised with the fear of the Lord and the importance of this 'vocation' of being fruitful and multiplying, the blessings will continue.

And there will be hope, and ultimately God will be glorified.




Putting it together, bit by bit,
Donna

I would like to acknowledge Pastor Jarvis for his inspiring sermon last Sunday and Julie for her thought provoking words.