Putting Your Own House in Order
Transcript:
Hello! This is Pastor Don of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective!
As chaos grows in any society, increasingly people look for someone to blame. We cry out:
“It’s the government’s fault!”
“It’s the public schools that have caused the problems!”
“It’s the church’s fault for why my family life is a mess!”
“It’s society or the culture’s fault!”
Now, social forces and institutions “out there” are indeed important. There are many layers to social cohesion, and an integrated, well-functioning society involves multiple public and private institutions. It is a structure made with interlocking building blocks. However, the most basic building blocks are always self-discipline and your homelife-management. You and your family are what society is made of.
So, unless you are humbly seeking to get your own self and own house in order, to blame-shift, simply avoids the one root issue for which you have a fundamental responsibility.
In my engagement with schoolteachers and law enforcement, and even pastors, I’m increasing stunned to hear the level of chaos they are forced to deal with—much of which should be managed at the home level. Yet, more and more is expected of them, while less and less is expected of the individual and the family. This can only go on for so long till there is a collapse or a massive social reordering. Like an automobile bridge, our public institutions have a “weight limit”. They can hold only so much before they collapse.
We can pass the buck of blame for only so long before the bill is returned to our doorstep for “insufficient funds”.
Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective.
“Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.”
~ Colossians 3:17-21 (NASB95)