Friday, March 7, 2014

A Picture Worth A Thousand Words


Yes, this picture is a cartoon but it characterizes so much of what is wrong with our society.  We think we need things to be happy.  We need a nice home, comfortable bed, wide-screen television, iPhones, etc. to be happy and content. However, since most people feel they need all these things, they are missing out on the true treasures of life. 

Whoever drew this picture understands the true riches in life...a family defined God's way: a mother, a father, and children.  It has been in the last 50 years in America where we have forgotten this and decided women needed to leave the homes so we could have more stuff, fewer children, lonelier children, and more divorces.

Most families in the past grew up in small homes with lots of children.  Sure life was hard but isn't it still hard in different ways?  God never said you had to be rich or financially stable to have children.  He didn't say you needed a nice house and lots of bedrooms to have children.  He didn't even say you had to have a job that made a lot of money to have children.  He says that the man who has a quiver full is the blessed man.

 Therefore, if you love the Lord and seek Him, you love and serve others, and you work hard at whatever your hands find to do, you will be in very good Hands.  God is our provider. He owns the cattle on a thousand hills.  If we have food and clothing, we are to be content.

 Yes, this is just a cartoon picture but I love everything it symbolizes: 
marriage, children, and contentment.

 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all 
these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
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Tiffany · 577 weeks ago

Oh I love this post, and couldn't agree more. I think of my nearly 101 year old grandma who still lives in the tiny house they raised their 6 children in. They ran a farm, a dairy, and a grocery store. She worked so hard along side my grandpa (who eventually became a state senator). All 6 of her kids have higher education degrees and large wonderful families of their own - what a legacy! They raised their children in poverty but they had so much more. This is something I want to remember while raising our own. Who knows if we will be blessed with a quiverfull, but we are expecting #4 and so happy about it!
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Deb · 577 weeks ago

This is a lovely post. I totally agree with you.
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shannon · 577 weeks ago

Yup, what more can be said. Thanks for all your reminders and truths!
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Lady Virtue · 577 weeks ago

Beautiful cartoon and yet another great post. It really sums up what is most important and what life is all about. He who dies with the most toys does not win.
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Cynthia Swenson · 577 weeks ago

Children require that we make sacrifices of our time & resources. I just read this verse in Numbers 11:1, "Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord, & when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled..." I am soooo thankful for the Lord"s great mercies as I realize how I have a tendency to complain! Loving others always requires self sacrifice & we must learn to do that cheerfully instead of begrudgingly. I think confessing our bad attitudes to the Lord & asking His help in developing contentment, gratitude, & loving service to others is essential to the Christian life. It's my heart's desire to please the Lord! Love & prayers, in Jesus, Cynthia
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Linda · 577 weeks ago

Loved it! I have never had so many financial problems, and yet we are ecstatic expecting our number 2 baby in four weeks. Who is my provider? My job, my husband, or the Lord owner of the universe! Jehova Jireh, the Lord provides, is whom I trust!
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Amy · 577 weeks ago

Wonderful post!
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Cynthia · 577 weeks ago

Of course, it also helps to know the difference between wants and needs.

You are right that electronics, big houses, etc. are not necessary to raise happy and healthy children. On the other hand, things like proper medical and dental care are. Fruits and veggies can be more expensive than empty carbs, and homes in safer areas may be more expensive. You also have families with unique challenges - I know that my sister and her husband, for example, devote a lot of the family's resources to making sure that my nephew with mild autism gets proper therapy and they cut back their hours to be available for the kids.
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Emily · 577 weeks ago

This, and I think that it's different than it used to be. At one time, kids earned their keep by working on the farms or in the family's shop. They would even go to work selling papers and things like that. It was actually profitable to have a large family then because that's basically free labor.
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Jo · 577 weeks ago

Whilst we don't need to crowd ourselves with every gadget, it doesn't mean we should live in a tiny house with very little just to prove a point. We should make wise decisions in all we do and if we can't afford something then don't buy it.

My mother's family lives in a very large house and would have been considered very well off as my grandfather was an industrialist - they were a very happy loving family. My fathers family were quite opposite, poor and very grumpy. Small and poor doesn't mean happiness either or content. Its all about the family unit.
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صور جميله · 555 weeks ago

Very good topic of wonderful

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