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The Importance of Family

In a way, our relation with God is like our relation to our parents. Our parents gave us physical life and God gave us eternal life through faith in Christ. However, in both cases we can also come to see familial obligations as inconvenient and even onerous. Modern life has been designed to make us under value and even resent family relations.

A line from Shakespeare says “How sharper than a servant’s tooth, a thankless child”. This captures a little of the pain more frequent as our culture follows the trajectory of living for self. Parents attempting to raise a more traditional family need to help their children learn to see the world and it’s deceptions for what they are. Some try to live a “good” life by rigid adherence to what is right and wrong. This can lead to confrontations. Recently a 16 year old boy told his parents that he did not think Christianity was true because he saw eternal conscious torment as being unjust. A parent that puts his child in a position of accepting or rejecting something may find that the child will more often reject it.

An exploratory approach to answer questions might help a child see his parents not so much as rule enforcers, but ones to whom he can come with questions and doubts and find someone interested in helping him find answers. At a basic level of survival, the family is essential. Modern life tends to see the family as more peripheral. For Christians family is even more essential. Without parental guidance, most children would not be able to escape the deceptions Satan has woven around them.

Family should be where we learn the difference between selfless love and selfish “love”. Modern life has many superficial relationships, however, family is where one should learn about deeper relationships.




  


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