Family camp blessing

It was such a blessing to hear from "seniors", speaking Gods truth for the family at family camp.

There was another aspect, something right in hearing Ovid with his white hair, speaking this new, old message to us on families. Don’t get me wrong I like our “beardless striplings." (Yes, Rob does has his navy beard going for our Reformation day celebration.)

But a number of things sunk in watching Ovid teach.
Part of our wetness is we have been conditioned to like, or see as a normal condition, being surrounded with people our own age. We don’t do it deliberately. Part of our fragmented compartmentalized age is to push us into our groups. Singles, young marrieds, teens, seniors. This is a dogma of the culture and the church ratified it through silence and then made it a part of modern church life.

For the most part it has been a younger generation that has been teaching and exhorting us forward. But watching Ovid and Bettie it seemed so good to get this older component into the mix as it were. To have young and old harmonizing on what we should be about. Because the whole age spectrum of the family is yielding to Gods purpose in life. Follow the Word and you can see how all the parts can help and bless one another, follow the world and your killing the babies and grandma.

Now today we have a shortage of grey beards, of the Horry head. Either they wont accept Gods truth because it runs counter to what has been normal, “don’t want to have to cut the cruise short”, or they recues themselves, having bought a lie that they don’t have anything to contribute.
Modernity, “listen to the children,” by extension we are telling the elderly to shut up so we can hear the Hitler youth. We have been so...

I pray! That Bettie and Ovid will be part of a spearhead of mature
Christians coming into the ranks of the family integrated church movement! It would be so Americana of us to say God is doing a new thing. Rather I hope we are seeing another aspect of God reforming the church today by restoring the historical thread that has been lost. This is not new but rather how God has always intended life to be lived and overcome in his name. With families that become mighty in the land. The Tribe of Rudy and Jason etc etc. This is the old wine that tastes better than the new. But you had better have a new wine skin to accept it.

Bettie made mention that her kids were concerned that she and Ovid were too alike and would clash too much in marriage. Bettie was so right when she said, but I understand what my role is, as wife, in relation to the husband. This is huge! Because they get there understanding on what their roles are, from Gods word, they seamlessly fit into our midst too. What is the normative role for me? How can I do it better? God help me to embrace that role, that you may bless future generations to your glory! Rather than our cultural mantra, ”through Christ I really can do any role” One is a submission to Him and His order as the highest value. The other perspective thinks in terms of “it seems so restrictive.”

As families say no to society and its free range chicken lifestyle we will get to move into a time of old and young building the walls together. I’m drooling. I have not been privileged to see what happens when multigenerational lines are encouraging and cheering each other on for His glory. Lord let my eyes see it I pray.