Comment: So,
have we forgotten family life? Is our way of life in the United States of
America friendly to the past, or is it unfriendly? We today rely on “search
engines” believing people who may or may not be recording the truth. We dare not
ask our father for fear that he does not know. Grandfathers too, only a
generation behind have lost the vital history of their family. Occasionally a
great grandfather can reveal our ancestral family tree, but the mindset of most
young people you will find that they have no time to sit and listen to the
feeble mumblings of the bygone days. Now for me the question arises: Why? Why
have we forgotten our vital roots, and why are we lost in this sea of
indifference? Could it be that we have forgotten God as the source of true
history and could it be that nationally we have forced God out of our lives? And
can it be that moms and dads today believe as the fool (Psalm 14:1) The
fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.
Devotional: Ephesians 4 through 6 – As I have studied and
meditated in Ephesians over these weeks, thoughts of the human family have been
in the background. Yes, we will not lose sight of the Holy Spirit’s teaching of
Spiritual Wisdom, of grace or faith. We will not lose sight that we are brought
to the family of God by the blood of Christ. The Messiah is our Peace, our
Cornerstone of Faith. He is the revelation of Truth, and the mystery of the Old
is now appreciated in the New. Yet, there is another revelation within the
context of Ephesians, that reveals to you and me that ‘family; the human family’
should not resist in revealing our heavenly family – in Christ.
The church (our godly family)
is vital in this, teaching that we are to walk in unity, we are to use the
Spiritual gifts that God provides, we are to live as cleansed children of God –
in Christ, but putting off the old ‘uncleansed way of life. We learn to allow
God the Holy Spirit to renew the spirit of our mind. God provides His
Righteousness and Holiness which is TRUE and by putting on His Righteous and
Holy way, we turn away from our unrighteous and unholy clothing of the past and
the Spirit of God in us is not grieved. And again, as we looked yesterday; the
church restores us back to the image and likeness of God.
We are no longer to walk in
darkness, we are now Light in the LORD. Walk as children of light; in the
Spirit, in all goodness, righteousness and truth, which is true holiness, this
is what is acceptable to the LORD. Our understanding of the family of God, and
our human family has far too long been separated from Truth, as the TRUTH is in
Jesus (Ephesians 4:21). So, currently our walk has failed, humanly and
spiritually our marriages and families have crumbled. Many churches of today
reveal this same condition, while married to Christ, these church families are
unfaithful to Him and resemble five of the seven churches in Revelation 2 and
3.
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