The Importance of Family

“And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” Deut. 6:6-7

With the movement into genetic engineering, the noise of women’s right activists, and the society TV portrays, you have to ask yourself, “Is the family headed for extinction?”

There are some who would alter the concepts of the family to include any and every union between people, regardless of sex, commitment, or numbers. Some even attempt to take the term “family” and apply it nationally while they eradicate the biblical concept of the family.

The traditional family was not some freak accident, but was instituted by God, Who authored life. After God fashioned a woman from Adam’s rib, He brought her to Adam.
“And the man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh...For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:23-24

The family God designed was the institution through which children were to be nurtured, cherished, and taught His ways by example.

Without fail, those who deride the traditional family also have a problem with the Creator God and His written Word. The greatest danger to the family, however, is not from these - but from our own neglect.

Will you be an intercessor for the family as God designed it?

Pray for yours today, and for Christian organizations that minister to family needs.