Family

This weekend has been about gratitude, God and family for many, including myself. I drove five hours to pick up my 95 year old dad, and drove home the next day. He visited my oldest brother’s family for a couple days and stay with us in our gust room. Thursday we enjoyed a thanksgiving turkey dinner with our son’s family, then drove five hours the next day to visits my brother’s family in Arizona. The first night there, we drove from Kingman to Bullhead City to visit my niece and her family. Tomorrow, we make the five hour drive home, and after I fix a clogged sink drain pipe, I’ll be making the five hour drive to take my father home. Then, drive home the next day. Why this 2000 miles adventure? That is what family is and supposed to do. Blood is thicker than water and families stick together. A lot of work, but totally worth the time, effort and expense.

1 Timothy 5:8-9 “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

Thanksgiving has been in the gunsights and under fire in recent times by those who who wish to rewrite and reset the standards and values of this nation to control, humanism, retail and society focus. The raising of  children is the responsibility of their parents, not government. Society engineering, cultural ideology, and social/emotional is based upon “one nation under God, In God We Trust, God Bless America and the biblical morality and standards that founded and maintained this nation, not socialistic, atheistic, humanistic ideology that is contradictory, hostile and destructive to the family, God and country. The enemy is alive and actively at work to steal, kill and destroy. 

Isaiah 5:20 “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

 Have you noticed that the godhead of the Trinity is made up of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit? Do you see “family” there? John 1:11-13 says “He [Jesus] came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” As born-again believers, we are children of God, and brothers or sisters with Jesus Christ in the family of God. Let us not forget family! Family was invented by God and the basis of all civilization. Let us honor, respect, love and defend family, faith and country with all that we have within us, because that is what family is and supposed to do.

In Christ, Brian