Family

It's only appropriate that I thank the people who made this blog possible in my first post. Thanks to my dear aunt for helping me set this up, and thanks to my brother for suggesting the name (after Mom, Auntie, and I were agonizing about it for a while!)

While I'm on the subject of family, I'd like to say that I think family is one of the most important things God ever ordained. In my Understanding the Times curriculum for school, I learned something new about the famous Genesis 3:15 verse "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers, he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel". Apparently, the word "offspring" in the original language meant a line of descendants as a group, and it was meant to carry on into the "he will crush your head" part. So not only would Jesus crush Satan's head, but humans in general will crush the serpent's head. That was very interesting to me. We are all Satan-crushers. Satan understands this, and because of it he declared war on the family, because according to the verse the family would cause the most damage to Satan.

Well, he's done a pretty good job of waging war on the family. Divorce and abortion rates are so high that I don't even want to think about it, and the "traditional" family is not viewed with much respect these days. So I just want to say that we should all do our best to stand up for family the way God meant it to be. Whenever you get the chance, defend the sanctity of the God-ordained family.

Even though your family members may drive you crazy sometimes, just stop for a moment to think about what life would be like without them. I am blessed with an amazing family--millions if not billions of people don't have what I have. So give your parents a hug, and let your brother or sister have that bigger piece of cake, because you and I may never know just how blessed we are to have family.