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Why Does My Family Need the Bible (2)
Why Does My Family Need The Bible? (2)
By Greg King
“He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind” (Prov. 11:29). A good deal of the pain in our culture is the consequence of a relationship breakdown in the family. How many different problems in American society could you list that are related to the family? There are so many that even a partial list is very disturbing.
The Bible gives us God’s definition of a home. The “home” in America is under attack. I can’t expect my family to learn about the home from society, school, or from TV. The Bible presents the home as God intended it to be. If we want our children to be the kind of wife, mother, father or husband that God would have them to be then they will need the Bible and the good instruction that is found in it.
Our spirituality as individuals is being damaged in critical ways by our unhealthy family relationships, particularly the deficient husband-wife relationship that exists in so many households. There is so much more to be learned about the Lord and His will in the daily relationship between a husband and a wife than in any other experience in life. This is the most intimate relationship possible between human beings. When it is what God intended, there is greater spiritual help and more to be learned about love, service, etc. than anywhere else in life. When this relationship is dysfunctional, however, there is nothing that any more greatly hinders our spiritual health and growth.
Our very relationship to the Lord is eroded. “One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination” (Prov. 28:9). It is not just coincidence that the various family relationships are used so often in the Scriptures to illustrate spiritual realities.
