Keeping the White Fence Post, White

There is a powerful movement going on in Christendom, and the world-over really, where the fence posts darken without care, but the people are very active and busy, doing 'good works'. It is a challenge to do the mundane that we're called to, year after year, effectively. It is particularly hard when bombarded with books that glamorize living against-the-grain.... If one isn't careful, it can cause a body to pull away from God's clear calling in life, convinced they are being 'sold out' for Jesus.

Faith Undone by Roger Oakland is such a worthwhile read for those getting slowly sucked in to this cause-celeb driven world where the mundane is chastised in lieu of the "radical".

If you are a Christian wife, God makes it clear the first priority in life is to serve the husband He's given you to. If there are children, then serving them, raising them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord is next. How that child is educated comes hugely in to play here, particularly because of Luke 6:40. We can think we're doing more of the Lord's work by working all sorts of hours, abdicating our responsibilities at home, even donating all of the money we're making to good causes, but in the end I fear we will see that the ends don't justify the means. If God is truly in something, He will bring it about without our compromising His ultimate standards. Unfortunately in today's world of Rob Bell and the like, Mom's are leaving the hard, consistent work of keeping a home and raising their children as they ought. It feels so much more sacrificial to do something else, something sexy, but is that the right thing?

There are vast immature believers, even leaders, in today's seeker-friendly, social-gospel churches. Don't be one of them--go to the classical authors and listen to sound doctrine. Don't ignore what God plainly says is your job, according to Scripture. Beware of those that espouse lifestyles that act radically, but that do not focus on sound doctrine. The revolution is keeping the white fence post white, and in these dark days, we need more people willing to do that. It is EASY to leave dishes, laundry, child-rearing, home education and serving a husband in order to end sex-trafficking or storm unhealthy orphanages...but who is modeling God's primary vehicle for sharing who He is (the family)? Don't be fooled. Keep your white fence post white, love your children enough to do the hardest, most noble thing--get God's approval, not man's (who is always dazzled by the next self-sacrificing person). There isn't glamour or accolades for staying home and raising a family by mankind; doesn't that in itself make you give it a second thought?

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.