tanhaBuilding a House - Foundations
June 5th 2007 13:18
Foundations
The foundations of any house must be adequate to stand up to whatever the terrain will perpetrate on them. In Darwin, Australia they build houses to withstand cyclones like the one that wiped out the city in the 70s. In Adelaide they have to build strong enough to cope with clay soil that cracks wide open when the summer is dry. Steel rods are inserted into the foundations to keep the whole together and resist any soil movement.
In similar fashion a life will be buffeted by many a storm and trouble. There must be a solid framework of unbreakable steel (truth) built into it or the house is likely to come apart when the stiff winds blow or the ground moves. So fortunate children grow up with Bible truth, learning its verses by heart and having discussions about their meaning with their fathers. Yes, I said their fathers, because it is the fathers that God charged with the education of the children. Have you noticed that when a family breaks up it is the father that usually retains the family friends. It will often be the father whose lifestyle most influences the children. Father is head of the house according to scripture, and it is to father that everybody mostly looks. It is up to father to establish the ground rules within the family and to supervise them, to see that the children honour their mother in his absence and respect the systems he has put in place. He is to teach his children many things that will help them be certain and effective in their behaviours as they grow and advance to adulthood. ‘Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” says the Scripture. Certainly the things learned (or not learned) in childhood will form a powerful life base for the adult. If this is not well laid the child will have greater difficulty in learning the essentials during his 20s or 30s or later. It would require a whole reconstruction of life. Occasionally a child’s life does get interfered with by some force either outside of or within the family and this planned and delicate balance is over-ridden. However sometimes the young adult will re-invest in family values. But the establishment of family values and certainty is most important. Those values are written in scripture, so they are there and available for any family, As the city council insists on the placing of a steel network in the foundations to cope with soil movement, so it is essential that a strong network of truth and values be given each child so that he knows how to handle any situation that should arise to challenge him in his life..
NB Don’t use weak “truth” such as “your truth” which is no truth at all. The laws of physics are not relative and neither is the truth about humankind and how we work. The house will crack and fall down. “My truth” doesn’t relate to anything at all except my imagination, and is no foundation for anything. The Bible is truth given by God from generation to generation over two thousand years. It is powerful for setting a man and his household up for life. Give this strength to your family.
Yes girls, I know you want to raise the feminist arguments of the last century. They arose because of your hurts, pain and mistreatment, and because you care for one another. But in a marriage, your part is that of keeping the infrastructure together. If the fellas are bricks, you are the mortar. The marriage doesn’t stand without you and the quality of the mortar is most important to the house. It’s just that the bricks are the eye-catching feature, even if the mortar is equally essential. See what happens if the mortar goes chalky and disintegrates from the house. The bricks will crumble in a quivering pile. Let neither think s/he is the all important part. Together they make a fabulous structure. The structure is much greater than either of them!
The foundations of any house must be adequate to stand up to whatever the terrain will perpetrate on them. In Darwin, Australia they build houses to withstand cyclones like the one that wiped out the city in the 70s. In Adelaide they have to build strong enough to cope with clay soil that cracks wide open when the summer is dry. Steel rods are inserted into the foundations to keep the whole together and resist any soil movement.
In similar fashion a life will be buffeted by many a storm and trouble. There must be a solid framework of unbreakable steel (truth) built into it or the house is likely to come apart when the stiff winds blow or the ground moves. So fortunate children grow up with Bible truth, learning its verses by heart and having discussions about their meaning with their fathers. Yes, I said their fathers, because it is the fathers that God charged with the education of the children. Have you noticed that when a family breaks up it is the father that usually retains the family friends. It will often be the father whose lifestyle most influences the children. Father is head of the house according to scripture, and it is to father that everybody mostly looks. It is up to father to establish the ground rules within the family and to supervise them, to see that the children honour their mother in his absence and respect the systems he has put in place. He is to teach his children many things that will help them be certain and effective in their behaviours as they grow and advance to adulthood. ‘Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” says the Scripture. Certainly the things learned (or not learned) in childhood will form a powerful life base for the adult. If this is not well laid the child will have greater difficulty in learning the essentials during his 20s or 30s or later. It would require a whole reconstruction of life. Occasionally a child’s life does get interfered with by some force either outside of or within the family and this planned and delicate balance is over-ridden. However sometimes the young adult will re-invest in family values. But the establishment of family values and certainty is most important. Those values are written in scripture, so they are there and available for any family, As the city council insists on the placing of a steel network in the foundations to cope with soil movement, so it is essential that a strong network of truth and values be given each child so that he knows how to handle any situation that should arise to challenge him in his life..
NB Don’t use weak “truth” such as “your truth” which is no truth at all. The laws of physics are not relative and neither is the truth about humankind and how we work. The house will crack and fall down. “My truth” doesn’t relate to anything at all except my imagination, and is no foundation for anything. The Bible is truth given by God from generation to generation over two thousand years. It is powerful for setting a man and his household up for life. Give this strength to your family.
Yes girls, I know you want to raise the feminist arguments of the last century. They arose because of your hurts, pain and mistreatment, and because you care for one another. But in a marriage, your part is that of keeping the infrastructure together. If the fellas are bricks, you are the mortar. The marriage doesn’t stand without you and the quality of the mortar is most important to the house. It’s just that the bricks are the eye-catching feature, even if the mortar is equally essential. See what happens if the mortar goes chalky and disintegrates from the house. The bricks will crumble in a quivering pile. Let neither think s/he is the all important part. Together they make a fabulous structure. The structure is much greater than either of them!
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