Family Time

God has blessed me with a wonderful wife, my better half and my perfect match, with two wonderful kids and awaiting the third one. Counting over all what God has blessed, I have no reason why I should not thank and praise God. What a blessing! And what more can be more blessing than this? Life is wonderful in Christ. Sometimes hearing of many cases, I wonder why people do not enjoy their lives? Perhaps, they are void of the true and living God? For believers in the true and living God, everything is so sweet and enjoyable, even bad things at its worst, is a deeper experience of the Lord. So nothing is bad for those who are truly in the Lord. Come what may, God is with us. The presence of God means everything.

Sweeter even, is the enjoyment of family life with children; just being a husband to my wife and a father to my children, spending time together; playing together and doing household chore together, etc and etc. What an enjoyment! Though I have been a father for more than half a decade, I have never experienced the sweetness of family life as the Lord has graced me these days. Training children, teaching and educating them, praying together with them, reading the word of God--the Bible together with them, and in their childish fight, intervening to make peace between them, caring for them when they are sick physically,.. The list may go on and on. All the world has to learn doing things is right there in a proper family life. If one can handle his own family well, all the basic learning to deal with the world is half learned. O the importance of a family life, who can fathom it?

This is why Satan hates a proper family life; he is using all tools to dislodge the family ties. Couples falling prey to the Devil's subtlety are pitiful. Recently I have come across some; swirled by the typhoon of household turmoil. May the Lord preserve my own family from such and also preserve the families of the saints. Only the covering canopy of the Lord's blood and the supplying grace of the Holy Spirit and the unfailing, eternal and divine love of the Father can preserve us, purely, holy and wholly for Him. Slowly, yet steadily, as the years go by, family life is sweeter and sweeter, in the Lord.

As much as a normal Christian has his time with the Lord, in the word and for the saints in the church, so much more, there must be a family time. Parents having no time for their children, busy in their work to make money is the worst at its best. Even if it is for the Lord's work, family must not be neglected, not that family stands between God and us, but proper time must be given just for the family. Though parents must do their best for the family, yet the outcome is all upto the Lord's mercy. May the Lord bless every Christian family. And may the Lord preserve my family unto the end for His purpose.