Amerigelicals III

Americana was engraved and ingrained in my heart. We should want to do the same thing. But with Gods world view.

First a premise. I wasn’t equipped with just a head knowledge of Humanism, my being was permeated with it, does a fish know he’s wet issue? For lack of a better descriptive phrase it was written on my heart. It was the foundation for my thinking.

So as a father I do not want to give a foundation of life to my kids that is based on American humanism. In a nutshell that is life where some (or every) area can be addressed without bringing God into the picture. God is made irrelevant, we pretend we can discuss knowledge and bypass the one who created all that is to be known. Man, what I think, what is rational to me or to the group is the measure.

Now this is light years beyond many believing families that now say “praise God” and “thankyou Jesus” and “We just love the lord” and “God is so good to us” all the time, which are good things to say but we are called to take every thought captive.

The following is what God wants us to do. This is what God wants….

Deu 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Deu 6:6-9 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates

He tells us, to do it.

Now there is no way to read this and conclude that God is telling us to give our family a head knowledge of his commandments. Its to inculcate them.

Make it their worldview! Everywhere they turn it is Gods perspective that is being reinforced, morning, noon and night. All encompassing. I was given humanism as central to all of life. “Gilligans island” and “The Three Stooges” But we put it on the posts, gates, fit them with frontlets so what they see is interpreted by Gods word. We do this from as young an age as we can. We are not saving them. What we are doing, is trying to be obedient to God.

These instructions to us are in the context of God giving his law. God setting up the framework for interpreting life. Laying out the standard for that which is good and that which is evil. Life is to be taught, that you live it, from Gods eternal perspective!

We don’t wait to see if they are gonna be saved. This is supposed to be the basis for life whether someone is saved or not. We give them a biblical foundation because we are saved. And we pray that God saves them, calls them and when he does, they will be ready to live and move and have their being in him. I, now even saved, live and move and have way too much being with “The Three Stooges.”

In the same way that a mother or father in a careless moment, not thinking, can inadvertently bruise a child's heart with something that they say or do, the kid, then deals with it for most of their life, so we echo the proverb 23:26 my son give me thine heart... not to scar it but to implant Gods word deep in it.

Just like in our voting, we need to be obedient, and leave the results to God.