The Family of God

For the past couple of weeks, Donna, our organist at Crothersville has been playing one of my favorite songs as the members of the congregation rise to greet each other. The title of it is, “The Family of God,” and the chorus goes like this:

I'm so glad I'm a part of the Family of God,

I've been washed in the fountain, cleansed by His Blood!

Joint heirs with Jesus as we travel this sod,

For I'm part of the family,The Family of God

I love this song because it stresses that we are all part of a family, a very large family, we are a part of God’s family. Unfortunately, we don’t always treat each other that way. I often think about how society has changed just in my life time. When I was growing up, people were part of organizations, boys joined Boy Scouts and girls joined Girl Scouts. Moms were part of the PTA and Dads joined Lodges, and everyone, at least most everyone attended church. We all sat together at the meal table and participated in something almost unheard of today, conversation. We talked about school, politics, work, and a thousand other topics. In the evenings, we kids would go outside to play, and when the streetlights came on, we knew it was time to go in. People would come by the house and in return we would go visit others.

It used to be that people would sit out on their front porch and they would wave and talk to friends and neighbors who passed by. Karen and her family had this great front porch, I could always count on Karen’s Dad to be sitting out on the porch with his 7up and his fly swatter. Now compare that to today where they don’t even build front porches on houses any more, all houses come with back decks and privacy fences surrounding them.

You will have to forgive me for being a little nostalgic, it is my prayer for you today, that perhaps for a minute you have had an opportunity to reflect on a little simpler time and that even though families have changed, the family of God never does!

Blessings