Mississippi Messenger Apr. 2014 | Page 12

FAITH IN THE FAMILY BY: WILL LOTT Peanut butter and jelly, biscuits and gravy, fishing and summer afternoons… Some things just go together so easily, it’s like they were made to go together. Faith and family. Both are important on their own but they belong together, improving each other and making lasting impacts. During the past years, the family has come under an exhaustive attack: divorce, gay marriage, abuse and the list could go on. I believe the family is under attack because it is divinely created and it is the basis to all of society. The family outdates any school, government, or church, yet it is the first of all of these. It is attacked because of the power a family of faith has. I have no children but I am a child that is a product of a family that practiced it’s faith outside of church. I was taught about scriptures, about prayer, and Christ-like actions all at a young age in the home and it continued as I grew. My parents practiced the principles of Deut. 6:6-9, teaching the Word to their children, diligently, as we rose, as we sat, as we walked, and as we lay down. JOSHUA 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my h