Author Rich Wagner tells Christian men “if you allow your heart to be captured by career and church, you put your kid’s spiritual lives at risk.” He argues that the answer to life is not balancing family, career, and church. It’s about limiting career and church in order to lead the family whole-heartedly.
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It is a balancing act. My kids need me to be at home and available. They also need to have health insurance and to learn that people need to work and take their jobs seriously enough to keep them.
I doubt he is denying that. He is arguing against the tendency to let the family cruise while the man pursues career advancement or projects and ministry work.
Makes sense. Reminds me of something some guy once said about how “If you do not love your brother, whom you can see, how can you love your Father in Heaven, whom you cannot see.” Meaning (as I take it) that the Love of Christ should always start at home, with those closest to us.
Come to think of it, that guy had the most important job imaginable. And yet he still spent a lot of time building up the twelve men closest to him, and spared one of his few last words for his physical mother.
Balance and responsibility comes from a heart of compassion for one’s family… foundational key in all Godly pursuits.
Jumping is NOT into the wrong… it’s the great release from out of darkness and into His marvelous Light… no more heaviness of cover-ups… BUT then there’s new heaviness from consequences of coming clean.
Seeking God’s mercy.
For acknowledgement of personal trafficking and dehumanization of females behind the scenes along with demoralization of the opposite sex by a one-gender hierarchy condoned by many others in like hierarchies.
Confession cleans the soul… and the house… see if those choices are still available after that.
Often times there’s great devastation to get to the Promised Land BUT that’s what great God stories are all about.
Salvation and redemption.
The only way there is allowing GOD to work out the details.
OR He just may go to a higher authority to help yous out… like some woman… AND I DON’T MEAN ME!
Saw a quote on some beautiful artwork today at the Christian Bookstore “Faith doesn’t get us around adversity, it gets us through it”… and underneath that Joshua 1:9 was printed… I’m here… and don’t hate you at all… stop it!… you know the contrary.
You know, Chestertonian Rambler, that guy said something else on this topic which is a real head-scratcher.
>>Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
I don’t think I understand that.
This is a truth I wish my husband and I had learned when our children were at home.
I now understand what grandparenting is all about. It’s a second chance.
(it helps, too, that we are now old and tired and not of much use in those other areas anyway!)