"Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him."
Psalm 127:3 (NIV)
How much time do we spend with our families? How early do we get up? How late do we stay up? How much toil in our lives are related to our families? This psalm makes it clear that family life is the one activity where we are clearly God’s helper. It is God who decides who our mom and dads are. It is God who gives children to parents.
Many of us think that it is our job to raise our kids to be the spouse they should be, or the child they should be, or the sibling they should be, and that we need to persuade God to help us - YET - this psalm and all of Scripture, teach that God Himself brings us our spouses (Matt 19:6), that He gives us our children, which means that He chooses our parents, and that He places the lonely into families (Ps 68:6). This is God’s work and He expects us to help Him. We are called by God to be our brother’s keeper. It all started in the Garden of Eden where God brought Eve to Adam and it continues to this day all around the world.
Family is the building block of all human society - not by accident, but because God’s work, is family work. Humans strive to build villages, kingdoms and communities, but God builds families. He is building a family right now - a spiritual family where He is our Heavenly Father through his beloved Son, Jesus, and we are His children, reborn in His Spirit. He is also building millions of families all around the world, husbands and wives, children and grandchildren, brothers and sisters – FAMILIES.
Friend, if these things I have written are true - if our families are God’s work, and we are but helpers - then have we asked Him for guidance recently in our family life? Have we rested in Him in our toil and hours of work we pour into our family? Have we committed our family relationships to Him, and placed His wishes for our families above our own desires?
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