Fig is an acrostic for Faith in God from Mark 11:22. We as missionaries living in Japan enjoy our FIG in Japanese or In Nihon Go (ING). Here we are figing away in a beautiful country Japan. This started out as a place for family to get updates and pictures but now this goes all over the world. Praise God. May you be blessed as you read my posts. Some funny, some sad, & some really stupid and embarrassing for my family.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Family
I am unable to upload pictures until I get to a better connection. But for now I just wanted to say that we are so enjoying being with family. My biological family and my spiritual family. The design of the family is created by God it is his institution. No evolutionary model can explain the dynamic of the family. If it is about survival of the fittest we would have wiped out our families long ago. Sibling rivalries have left a wake of familial destruction around the globe. But there is forgiveness in the human race that for many who surrender to the logic of the God given model and reconcile with their family find a peace and joy that cannot be explained in rational terms. Those who forsake the family and go after self-enslaving lifestyles find a tremendous vacuous void in their soul even those at the pinnacle of life will testify of the pin-drop silence of loneliness and emptiness they feel. Family is God's design to illustrate to us humans a metaphor of our relationship with God. It is a marriage first and then a family ensues for all eternity. For those of misrepresentations of family and bad examples of souls trapped in violence and anger this was never the intended model but the worst case scenario. With the advent of the church after the resurrection of Christ we find that the Church is the new metaphor of the relationship we are to have with our God. The Church is seen as a body with many members all making up a person hood known as the Bride of Christ. She is a mess outside of scripture. In the Bible, the intent and design is beautiful but with sin still plaguing humanity we have a bloody violent mess of a representation of the bride. But the beauty is in that Jesus loves her and has chosen her and he will clean her up and she will be presented in heaven not in her own righteousness but in Christ's. She will be beautified and cleaned because of the work of Jesus. Today the emphasis is on the outward appearance and we are physically augmenting the church with abnormal nonspiritual growth and the silicone injections of entertainment were never the intention of the Lord. It is a plight of a false sense of security that the size of the congregation indicates a healthy physiology. When in fact the opposite is true. The emergent church is clear evidence of a bride in need of a visit to the emergency room to be healed instead they are on the fringe of society sitting in their own filth not seeing the groom for whom she should be preparing herself for. We find that they are more preparing themselves to entertain the world and look like the world than the eternal citizen of Heaven not part of this world. That is why we are seeing the the abnormal persons of the world try to look normal when they are not. The Family is designed by God to be distinct from any other form or union. Let no man or woman or other type person put asunder. The cool thing is even if our society capitulates to the terrorist demands of homosexual community they will never be normal. A label still won't pacify and satisfied until they repent and seek forgiveness and change from their wicked ways. It is not that I am declaring it to be so but their separation from God and his original design for the human being is what they are looking for and need. Until they see that no matter if we elevate them to the highest status in humanity they will always have a sense of abnormal. That is what they are in God's eyes and you just can't change an unchangeable person. He has always been and will always be the God of the universe the creator of all matter and substances and the Lord of humanity. When all is said and done every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord and King. I am so thankful we have family but I am so much more thankful that God has called me into his family and it isn't because of me or my special abilities and talents or lack there of, it is because of the simplicity of Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. Peace out.
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