Daily devotion – confusion
1Ti 3:4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
1Ti 3:5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
Ever heard the saying, “the tail wagging the dog?” We all know it means that the wrong things are running or dictating the show. We live now in a world where the minority is truly dictating the trends and philosophies of the majority of people in our current world.
It happens too in families. We see children, of all ages, teens and older included, dictating to their parents their wants and desires and getting them. We used to call these children ‘spoilt’.
The classic of course is the infant throwing a tantrum until mum or dad gives them want they want – now!
Such a trend has shifted into Christendom. The kids are making the decision on which Church the family attends. Not dad, nor mum, but the kids!
R. Kent Hughes in his book titled “Set Apart” – calling a worldly Church to a godly life – deals with this very issue. Under the heading “The Consumer Mentality”, Hughes writes and I quote, “….fuelled by a consumer ethos that picks and chooses here and there to fill an ecclesiastical shopping list. Ecclesiastical shoppers attend one church for the preaching, send their children to a second church for its youth program, and go to a third church’s small group. Their motto is to ask, “What’s in it for me?”…”
Under another heading titled “Drive-Through Christians” – he writes, “The nice thing about drive-through restaurants is that you can get what you want in a minimum of time with no more effort than a turn of your power steering….these get their fix out of the way by attending a weeknight church service or the early service on Sunday morning so the family can save the bulk of Sunday for the all-important soccer game or recreational trip…..this creates a family that is unfit for the battles of life and has no conception of being Christian soldiers in the great spiritual battle.”
Who is running the show in your life, in your family, in your home?
Look at the world and see what is happening around you where families are pulled along by the nose by spoilt kids who must have their way or else.
God is not a God of disorder or confusion.
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.