Though we love our family ~ our First Love must be the Lord God
In 1 Tim 3 we learn how to manage the family.
"... the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church? ... In the same way, wives are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything."
"... learn first of all to put religion into practice by caring for your own family and repaying parents and grandparents for this is pleasing to God... If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." 1 Tim 5: 4-8
By following what God asks us to do regarding family, we are showing our Love for Him and our trust in Him ... as all are God's children - our family, our children, whom put in our care become our first priority as this is what God asks of us... to take care of what belongs to Him!
Just imagine, if everyone did what God asked.
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