Having you come over, I hope it’s never over,
One of the great challenges of marriage is to become “one flesh” as God promises we can.
Genesis 2:24:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The Bible speaks of “children’s children” or grandchildren. What do grandparents have to do with their grandchildren’s lives and godly behavior? A great deal. God’s mercy lasts forever and our grandchildren can be righteous. Keeping God’s Word ourselves and then raising our own children so they teach their children in the scriptures is a key to seeing God’s grace and mercy in our families. We want our grandchildren to learn, remember, and do our Father’s commandments. As we taught our son, “Listen, Remember, Obey.”
One couple in the early church who kept God at the center of their marriage was Aquila and Priscilla. They are only mentioned in the Bible together, never separately. This dynamic married couple grew in their spiritual understanding together as they lived with Paul and supported his ministry.
Peter is well known as an apostle and leader in the early church. He was married to a wonderful woman who supported him, and Jesus, in their ministry.
Joseph and Mary are another believing example of a married couple who did God’s will. In their lives we see: Mary’s immediate obedience to God, God’s care for Joseph’s concerns, how they obeyed the law they knew to fulfill a prophecy about the Messiah, God encouraging them by other faithful believers, God showing Joseph how to protect and care for his young family, their teaching Jesus the Scriptures so he could grow in God’s grace, and God blessing them with a big family.
There are many ideas about how to be a good parent as a Christian believer. Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church has some great principles we can follow to be like our heavenly Father when we raise our own children.
What are the great moments of life? Fellowship with God and His Son are the key to joyous times [1 John 1:3,4].
Men need women and women need men. That’s how God designed it from the beginning.
Each of the four gospels has a different focus on Jesus. God had Matthew write his gospel to show Jesus as the King of kings. His genealogy includes Abraham (in whose seed all nations would be blessed) and King David. God had promised in Genesis 3:15 that the Messiah would be the “seed” of the woman. But women have no seed; they supply an egg. This meant that God (not a man) would be the Father of this promised one. God includes five believing women in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew.