Restoring the Family
By: Denise Boggs
Today we are living in a time when the family is under great attack, the rate of divorce is just as great in the church as outside the church. So many families are broken and need to be healed and restored, many going for years trying to figure out what is wrong and too embarrassed to ask for help.
God designed the perfect plan for the family, but if the family you were born into is dysfunctional, the plan was not implemented. God’s plan has always been for the fathers and mothers to teach their children the ways of the Lord. The home should be a divine school where God’s Word and Godly principles are taught and lived out on a daily basis. The parents are responsible for establishing a standard for righteousness, a standard for what is right and what is wrong.
Where do you start? Start with love. God is love; therefore, the ways of God cannot be learned apart from the love of God; His ways will appear to be just a set of rules. However, a home where love is present is the perfect environment for a child to learn God’s ways. A home that is in alignment with the ways of God is a home that is blessed.
So, to come into alignment for the full blessings of God, we must come into agreement with Him and learn His ways. When a family has the love of God, even the laws of God will be viewed and embraced as guidelines that ensure God’s blessings. We keep His commandments because we love Him. He, in turn, blesses us because He loves us.
Just as there are laws in the land to keep us safe, there are spiritual laws that God has set to keep us safe. Psalms 74:17 tells us, “It was You who set all the boundaries of the earth….” However, unlike the laws of the land, we are always subject to spiritual laws and will always pay the consequences for breaking those laws.
Spiritual laws are much like natural laws. Take gravity; if a pencil is thrown into the air, it will fall to the ground every time. Just so with a spiritual law - break it and the devastating consequences must be paid, every time. This is true if we believe in God’s laws - or if we don’t. In fact, it is Satan’s aim to destroy families by destroying the belief in the absoluteness of God’s laws.
The following four spiritual laws are keys that will restore any family:
The Law of Honoring
Deut. 5:16 “Honor your father and mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.” (Ps. 119:1-3; Ps. 19:7-10; Eph 6:2)
To dishonor our parents will bring trouble to our own lives.
The Law of Judging
Matt. 7:1-2 “Do not judge lest you be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.”
We judge another because we see in them (speck) what we have in our life (log). When we pass judgment on the speck we are also condemned for the log.
The Law of Reaping
Gal. 6:7 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”
A man reaps what he sows. Sow bitterness, you reap bitterness. Sow anger, you reap anger. Sow joy, you reap joy. Whatever you sow, you will reap. This is much like the natural law: For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.
The Law of Increase
Hosea 8:7 “For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.” (Gal 6:7)
We sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. If bad seed is sown and not immediately unearthed, years later it will produce an entire crop of devastating consequences.
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Denise Boggs is an author, teacher, and director of Living Waters Ministry.
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