Essence of family in God’s overall scheme of things
Family and its importance cannot be overemphasized. This
text/article will hopefully help you see it in a different and more positive
light.
God is all powerful……
He makes decisions and acts as He pleases, and still yet He
is unquestionable and answerable to No one!
With that said, it is worthy to note that God is a master
planner. Though He is well within His right to act in any fashion that pleases
Him; He doesn't just take steps or make rules or decide on a course impulsively
or ‘just because He can’. You can be assured that whatever He does or decides to
do are just portions of the larger picture, that is, they are all necessary
actions to attain His ultimate goal , which unite HIS family with Him in a state of
PERFECTION and purity.
God cares for nothing more than (His) family and uniting them with
HIM at the end of time. That is why the devil has sought to destroy man; He
wants to “hurt” God where it will hurt the most.
Note the analogies in the scriptures pertaining the kingdom,
the church and the body – they all point in one direction; family.
Family here is not the corruption or bastardization of it
that the world tends to portray these days. Family here refers to Father,
Mother and kids, with them all living together and the parents legally married
with the children conceived and brought up in wedlock.
Have you ever wondered why God didn't just create (male)man in
‘bulk’? Why did He stop at Adam? Why did
He create Eve out of Adam and not dust? Why didn't He just create males or just
females? He has the capacity to do all those, but He had something specific in
mind which he wanted to achieve.
The human body is something that the scripture has used
interchangeably with the family as analogies for the church and for each other.
Now let’s take an instance of an individual who has been
blind in one eye for quite a number of years(possibly his entire life) and that
individual has become quite adept at going about His daily activities with just
the parts available.
We have a second individual who happens to have recently
lost one eye. Note, both individuals definitely realize the importance of
having both eyes, but the latter individual will most definitely have more
value for the missing eye, in fact he might feel that he couldn't possibly lead
a normal life again. The first person has always known himself this way, and
thus feels that he is living as normal a life as anyone else.
Now let’s build the hypothetical case study further; a well
renowned thief of body parts suddenly comes to each individual, dangling their
missing eyes to them. He gives them a condition to repossess the part and have
them affixed back (let’s assume that only that particular eye will work for them
and only the thief can restore them). He states that they have to bequeath
their entire possession to him! Who do you think will be more inclined to
accede to his request? The second individual it is; but why? He holds his
missing eye to a much higher devotion than t
he first individual. Though both
individual understand the importance of having both eyes, the first individual
doesn’t have the dependence on His missing eye that individual B (the second
individual) has.
The first individual represents the false/wrong image of
family while the second stands for what family should be.
God doesn't just want us to understand the importance of
other family members; He wants us to be totally dependent on each other. Why
you may ask? The church is God’s body, and hence his family. He wants us to
translate our relationships within our earthly family into the body of Christ.
But how can we do that without first experiencing and living it? That is why we
are born into families so that we naturally have that bond, unfettered and
unconditional loyalty, total dependence and utmost regard for everyone and a
natural order with everyone knowing His/her place and not challenging others
for their positions. For this to be manifest in the church, God needed to build
this into our natural psyche through personal experience and not just
indoctrination or because he said so.
Humans have a natural tendency to learn best from personal
experience rather that what they have been told, instructed to do or read. That
is why God desires us all to have a “proper” family experience and not the
bastardization of it thereof. That is also why this is the devils most attacked
area. He attacks any principle in order to cause a distortion of this.
Written on: 23 – 02 – 2013
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