GOD’S
FAMILY PLAN
Ivan Pattison,
I find in these days,
there is so little honour of our parents, and I
wonder why? Is it because there are not many homes that honour
God? Is it because there is so little time taken in the home
for God, and for our children. The words still come to me often,
"Take Time to be Holy", a song sang in the
church I went to in my early years.
There is another verse
of Scripture that says;
Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way
he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Is it also that we do
not take time to train our children on the Word of God, and show love to our
children, that they do not learn to show love and respect back to us.
There are three
Scriptures that I put in my writings from time to time, and they are;
1Th
Jos
1:8 This
book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written
therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,
and then thou shalt have good success.
Psa 1:2 But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
1Cr
If only!! If only we
would follow them, and obey God in doing what He says in His Word, how
different things would be for each and every one of us.
How different would
our prosperity be, and our happiness in the home would be, if only we would put
God first, and put His Word first in our life.
We study to earn
money, we study for all sorts of things, but do we study to show ourselves
approved unto our God.
2Ti
We must get it right,
that is learning what God is saying to us through His Word in truth. We must be
certain that we have the right meaning of the Word of God.
Having peace, unity in
the home is so important, having a sound mind,
Tts 2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound
doctrine:
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us
the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
These are a must, for a well knitted
family, a family that is strong, and steadfast not only in the Word of God, but
in relationship with each other.
There are many parents
who provoke their children, when they should be nurturing them, and showing
them love, showing them how to love each other. Some parents get through their
marriage without arguments, in front of the children, but many do not show this
discipline.
There was a song many
years ago, that went like this: "Love and marriage, goes together like a
horse and carriage", if only, if only they did, the world would be such a
different place, and the attitudes of our young would so much different.
Shalom, Ivan
