THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY

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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