"There is nothing like staying at home for real
comfort." - Jane Austen
Without
doubt God is a masterful designer, His intricate plan of the Universe even to
the tiniest detail is a wonder, but in my opinion I think the family unit is
one of His greatest inventions. The family, you will discover is a marvel, when
closely examined as we will attempt to do in this series. The bounding cords
between her members are stronger and more intricate than any form of molecular
bond known to science, the roles and functions of her members are multifarious
and simultaneously as specific as they can be. Little wonder the devil is in a
major onslaught against the family unit, trying to redefine what a family is,
messing up the roles and purposes of a family, simply because he knows that
every family unit is a great weapon in the hands of God. God always places a
trait, a unique character, a gift in the line of every family, something
designed to foil the devils agenda and improve society, whether the family
realizes or fulfills this mandate or not is another matter.
At
the annual family-reunion picnic, a young bride led her husband to be over to
an old woman busily crocheting in a rocker. "Granny," she said,
touching the old woman's hand affectionately, "this is my husband to
be." The woman eyed him critically for a long moment, and then asked
abruptly, "Do you desire children?" Startled by her bluntness, the
young man blushed and stammered, "Well-uh-yes, I do very much."
"Well," she said, looking scornfully at the large tribe gathered
around the six picnic tables, "try to control the numbers it runs in the
blood!"
Rudyard
Kipling once wrote about families, "all of us are we--and everyone else is
they." A family shares things like dreams, hopes, possessions, memories,
smiles, frowns, and gladness...A family is a clan held together with the glue
of love and the cement of mutual respect. A family is shelter from the storm, a
friendly port when the waves of life become too wild. No person is ever alone
who is a member of a family.
Regardless of your family history, God has made an investment in your family a
deposit of grace designed to impact the world, it runs in your blood, discover,
develop and deploy it.
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