day no. 15,373: the right kind of bright: love children, raise warriors, hate evil, praise God

"We (must) finally recognize the importance of the time we are called to invest in our children. Because it is a long war, it crosses generations. In a very short space of time, your children will join you in the line, and a short time after that, their children will join them. This means that we begin by fighting for our children, but we must end by fighting by means of them. We must do two things simultaneously—we must fight today’s battles, and we must recruit and train tomorrow’s warriors. If I am allotted more than the proverbial three score and ten, I hope that as my children and grandchildren are hitting their stride, I will see myself as still fighting through them. I hope that I have the privilege of seeing a lot of downstream damage to the work of the adversary. Decades from now, when my descendants are giving fits to whatever progressives are calling themselves in the 22nd century, I hope that my name is a hissing and a byword to God’s enemies. A short-sighted man who throws himself into ministry, neglecting his family in order to do so, is not just demonstrating for us that he doesn’t understand his wife and kids. He is demonstrating for us the fact that he doesn’t understand the nature of true ministry. A man who is wrong about children will find it difficult to be right about anything else. So what we need (as I’ve said in other places) are more children with the right kind of bright in their eyes, like Jonathan after he ate the honey. We want children who have that kind of bright in their eyes because they have fathers who gave them the honey in the first place. " -- Douglas Wilson, The Neglected Qualification

THIS!

Ministry is primarily multi-generational, mission-minded, multiplication of disciples that begins in the home and produces the right kind of bright.

Love children.

Raise warriors.

Hate evil.

Praise God.