Messy Home!
"God is able to
do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we
ask or think."
Ephesians
3: 20
Ever since Adam and Eve, families have been messy.
The best families encounter stress and complications.
Our deep hurts usually involve our deepest loves. The
Lord knows all about that. His own earthly family—the
Church—can be messy too. What do we do when
things are not going well?
We can't control other people, but we can bring
our own lives under the Spirit’s control. We can
ask Him for patience, for influence, for the
ability
to minister grace to grief.
We can leave our deepest burdens with Him,
remembering the words of Luke 18:1, that we
“always ought to pray and not lose heart.”
In building a successful family, you must put God
at the head of it, the center of everything. Ask God
to take control, and let it begin with allowing Him
total control over your own life.
We must draw on God’s grace and rely on His
timely intervention. The Lord is certainly more
able than we are—“exceedingly abundantly
above all that we ask or think.”
"In a Christian home,
there’s something special.
It’s called grace."
Robert Wolgemuth
