God
just really wants healthy families! I
think that’s how He’s gonna accomplish stuff in the Last days. (Yes, I believe that these are the last days.) And, I think the
Church is going to be weak, if the families are weak. Look around, the waves of dysfunction are scary. Having been raised functionally and
the Rugged Mountain Man and I now trying to raise our family functionally, when you see the dysfunction around
you, it’s very overwhelming.
I think we’re people of the Word and we don’t
have to be dysfunctional.
You don’t have
to stay dysfunctional. It doesn’t matter
if you were raised functionally or dysfunctionally, if you’ll stick with the
Word of God, that’s the Answer.
I was raised in what I would consider to be a functional home and I feel
like that was a good thing for me. But,
part of the reason it was a very good thing is because Mom and Dad didn’t know
really how to be functional ,so they were just like, "WOW, well this is what it
says, so let’s do this." It was kinda
simple for them. They didn’t know, but they went to the Bible and tried to apply it to our daily lives as best as they could.
Growing up, I think tv and entertainment was a little more
important in my Mom’s upbringing, but in our upbringing, it was very marginal. I think that came from, “Oh, the Bible says
not to put any worthless thing in front of your eyes, and this really causes us
to stumble, so I think we’re just gonna put the tv on the back burner and we’re
just not gonna have that.” That was
a really practical thing they did, not because they were raised
that way, but because they were trying to be godly.
What I'm trying to say is that it
doesn’t matter if you were raised functional or not, if you’re gonna go to the
Word, you will find something that will help you to be functional. And it will help you follow God’s design and
His plan. His plan and His design will form a beautiful thing in the end.
