Simple Living in Practice #13 - Where there is no Vision...

This past week, we have been dealing with a number of different and seemingly unrelated topics, with keeping stock and the issue of household gizmos and gadgets, with the influence of TV yet again and yesterday with a godly farming time frame. So let me take the opportunity today, as the Sabbath approaches, to show how all these, and a million other individual issues, are related.

In today's world, people tend to separate the different parts of their life from each other. There is the family, there is work or college, there is church life, there are hobbies, there are friends, there is social involvement, there is "private time", there is empty time. The latter, of course, is avoided as best as possible, as well as anything that might produce boredom, so constant entertainment and activity are essential, and within a family, often enough each member runs off to a different activity all day long so that members of a family hardly ever see each other anymore, other than, most probably, when they "line up" for the bathroom in the morning. Some families at least are keeping up regular meal times together, but for others, not even that is manageable anymore.

Well, we at Joshuah's House think that this compartmentalization of life is one of the reasons why society is "going to hell in a hand basket" - families are nothing but groups of individuals anymore who live under one roof, the house is divided, and nobody even thinks that's a problem.

But God has different plans for us. He has set up rules and roles and a vision, without which the people will perish, and this vision is closely bound to God's Law-Word:

"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." (Pro 29:18)

All of life, every aspect of it, is to be brought under God's authority, the manual for life is His Word as we find it in Scripture (and Scripture alone), and the place where we can live best according to God's plan is nowhere else but in the multi-generational family.

So all the different aspect we have been dealing with, not only those of last week, but everything that we are addressing, is part of family life, and no matter what is done or decided, there is only one standard Joshuah's House goes by: The Heavenly Unrevisable Code.

So much for this week... Have a restful Sabbath, and stay tuned for more next week.