“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart …. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”
Colossians 3:23, 24
Colossians 3:18-21 gives us concise words about how to live as members of a family, words that we sure need. Though the heartbreak in families is familiar to us all, the depressing statistics on family breakdown hardly shock us anymore.
Satan is committed to destroying the nuclear family because it is the very element God has chosen to picture for us the perfect love between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ grace, forgiveness, and compassion are perfect. But when grace, forgiveness, and compassion are discarded, families fall apart, and the image of God’s love is distorted.
Paul spoke of a new Christian ethic based on Christ’s love. His teachings urged each family member—man or woman, boy or girl—to put away their own rights and serve the other. Much of this seemed upside down in a culture where all privileges belonged to the husband and all duties to the wife.
If you’re reading this today and you know firsthand of brokenness in your family, lay your burden at Jesus’ feet. Let’s unite in prayer for our families.
Satan is committed to destroying the nuclear family because it is the very element God has chosen to picture for us the perfect love between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ grace, forgiveness, and compassion are perfect. But when grace, forgiveness, and compassion are discarded, families fall apart, and the image of God’s love is distorted.
Paul spoke of a new Christian ethic based on Christ’s love. His teachings urged each family member—man or woman, boy or girl—to put away their own rights and serve the other. Much of this seemed upside down in a culture where all privileges belonged to the husband and all duties to the wife.
If you’re reading this today and you know firsthand of brokenness in your family, lay your burden at Jesus’ feet. Let’s unite in prayer for our families.
Scripture Focus
Colossians 3:18-21; Ephesians 5:21-6:4
Insight
The Christian family is strong or weak depending on how it has or has not cultivated the knowledge, instruction, and love of God.
Bible In A Year
- Ezekiel 25-26
- Psalm 143
- 1 Thessalonians 3-4
