Author: E.Y. Redal

Fit For A Home

I wish I had found this much earlier. Though I raised my children in a Christian home, I do wish we had a  family worship time at my house. My kids are all grown and have kids of their own who are grown ups too. There is only one of my children who still has her two girls at home. I’ll have her read this and my hope is that you too will find these seven reasons for family worship helpful. I found this while cleaning out my desk. It has no author’s name beneath it. I probably cut it out intending to use it somewhere, but here it is for you:

Seven Reasons For Family Worship

1. It will enrich the life of the family and make the home fit for the presence of Jesus, our unseen guest.
2. It will encourage tolerance and understanding, and put faith in the place of friction.
3. It will bring across the threshold an Infallible Guide for the youth of the home, to give their lives meaning and direction.
4. It will send us forth to the day’s work in utter cheerfulness, dedicating the day to the glory of God.
5. It will strengthen us against suffering, sorrow and frustration that nothing the world can do to us can hurt us.
6. It will reinforce the week so that Jesus is with us from the church service to the next church service.
7.It will bring the consciousness of family unity in God, a new dependence on his fatherhood. a wider sense of the brotherhood of man.
Because I am today using another’s thoughts, let me use this one by Kate Wiggens, an old time writer who was a favorite of mine. Mother’s Day is just behind us and this saying is bound to make a mother smile. 
Only One Mother
Most of all the other beautiful things in life comes by two or three. by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole wide world.

Together, We Can Change America!

Our country is a mess! Our economy is bad, we need more jobs, our kids are not allowed to use the name of Jesus in school. They aren’t even taught history like we used to do. We don’t have Christmas or Easter vacations any more, just winter vacations and Spring breaks. We have murdered millions of babies and people just don’t care about what God says in his book anymore.

There is more but who is at fault? I think it is me and millions of folk just like me. We have long ago decided that we are happy and contented with our lives. We buy what we need and much more too. We vote and we go to church when the weather is good. We forget to pray but we accept God’s gifts just the same. We send our kids to school but we don’t pay any attention to what they are learning. We don’t even pay attention when the pastor says the Bible is wrong.

Some of this doesn’t fit me and some of it doesn’t fit you, but put them all together and somewhere or other we can put our name on one or two of these things. The question is, what do we do about them? The first thing is to remember that God is in control. What has he done in the past?  If we study in our Bibles we know he will destroy America if we don’t wake up. He has destroyed the children of Israel over and over again but he has saved them too if two or more prayed. What does that tell us? We need to pray!

Christianity started with only eleven men! These men, for the most part, were fishermen without much education but they followed Jesus. They walked all over the country and even decided that Gentiles, like us, were welcome too. Where are we now? In America we consist of the largest portion of people yet we too, have fallen into living our lives like there is no God. However, are there eleven people here  willing to stand for what is right and say “No” to what is wrong? I am sure there are thousands more than eleven!

Let us begin by following God. Admit we have been wrong and then turn to him in prayer asking him not to punish us like he has so often done to the children of Israel. Prayer is a powerful gift we have received and we should use it much more than we have. Then we should  talk to our families and friends telling them to also pray for our country.

We can change our country if only we turn our hearts and lives toward God. He is in control, much more than our Congress and President are, let’s not forget that!