Family life comes to us everyday. As believers we are to live life remembering we are in Christ, well in your family life and activities remember who you are in Christ. Doug Wilson wrote: “All Christian living, including what we call family is based on being before doing…grace. The perennial temptation is to try to scrap our way into being in Christ by doing (works). But grace in the Spirit reverses this order. Grace makes us Christians, and grace gets more doing done than doing does. In the gospel God works in us both to will and do for his good pleasure (Phil 2:12-13). The gracious Spirit filled Christian does not refuse to do family, he just doesn’t try to work it in for self-righteousness or self-comforts sake. We don’t earn reflecting Christ’s relationship in our marriages, we don’t earn the salvation of our kids, or good behaved children…God gives them to us by grace.
So fear the Lord and ask him what is needed in your family. Pray. Ask him for the gift of a good marriage, for the grace to be a godly dad & mom, and for the grace to love your particular family with all its warts!
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