δουλογος: Monday Weigh-In IV

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Monday Weigh-In IV

Yeah, I know it's Wednesday, but as previously stated, I am somewhat indisposed of late lately. Never the less, two days late, and really I only checked yesterday - the fourth week numbers are in, and they are (drum roll please), One Hundred and Eighty-two and a half pounds. To be fair, the scale actually said 181.5 three times, and 182.5 twice, but I am going with the higher numbers this week, because I went with the lower numbers a while back.

Anyway, I was reading in Numbers today how the Lord arrayed His army - by families. Think that through. The "First World" system eats families for breakfast, and I think that is by design - it is far too effective a destroying agent to be a matter of chance. Television allows a family to sit in the same room and be perfectly isolated from one another. The school system, for all its benefits, still separates children from their families for most of their waking childhood days - and in that time a peer driven (rather than family driven) focus is instilled - while individualism is exalted. Think about your family and ask yourself whether you are as a family are standing together in every fray, or whether you are some here and some there.

That's all for now.

Labels: family, Monday weigh in

posted by Daniel @ 7:17 AM

2 Comments:

At 9:50 AM, May 23, 2007, Jim said…

Excellent thoughts Dan!
At 5:14 PM, May 23, 2007, M.A.C. said…

The family is/has been attacked since the beginning starting with Adam and Eve (Cain & Abel). The family will continually be under attack until this age passes away.

Awareness is the key hmm you say theres some invisible spirits fighting a war and that it effects me. Even some so-called die hard Christians don't believe that and have excuses for it like, we don't know nothing about spiritual warfare and feign ignorance as an excuse.

Some Christian folk treat the brick and mortar church better than they do their own families. Because they consider it Holy ground, even though God clearly tells us we are temples of the Holy Spirit.