Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt
God has a plan for the family – mother and father and children are to love God first, most and more than they love anything or anyone else. Once that happens, our love for God will motivate husband and wife to love each other as Christ loved the church. That Christ-like love will serve as a model of love for the children who follow.
God's blueprint for the family is found in Deuteronomy Chapter 6. Keep in mind that it was God that invented the family. The home was God's idea. The very first human relationship He created was a relationship between a man and a wife. The second relationship was the relationship between the parents and the child. That order is very important.
Today in most cases, even in Christian families, the order of love is God, children, marriage. The center of gravity in the home becomes not the marriage relationship, which was really the beginning and meant to be the foundation of the home, but it becomes the children. The result is when the children move out the foundation is dissolved. What appeared to be, not only the logical way of doing family, but the right way of doing family, actually had it all wrong.
God has a better design for the family. His design looks like this: God, marriage, children.
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