A Girl in the Middle | Titus 2 mentor encouraging women to love God and to love, well, their home and family.
21 Names of God: 19, Abba Father
Abba Father
This goes out to all of God’s children!
As my children grew up over the years, we would have opportunity to explain to them the thing of family. Our home was always open, maybe I should say our car was always full as we more often seemed to be traveling from one ball field to another. It didn’t take long to realize our expectations of our family were not the same in other’s families.
And that’s ok. In our home, it was understood what and why we acted and responded in certain ways. Soon it became just as clear to our kids that everyone around our table were not part of our family. Therefore, they did not abide by the same standards as did we. Makes sense, right?
Every one of the people we’ve had in our home (or car) have been met with and treated with the same worthiness and loving hospitality as the next, and because they were youth, the same caring shield of authority while in our care. Yet, they didn’t live with the same expectation we had of our own children nor did we love them as we love our own.
NOT PART OF THE FAMILY
Simply, they were not part of the family.
The outside world gets this wrong in Christianity, too. We are not all God’s children. Though He created us all in His image and desires...
Abba Father
This goes out to all of God’s children!
As my children grew up over the years, we would have opportunity to explain to them the thing of family. Our home was always open, maybe I should say our car was always full as we more often seemed to be traveling from one ball field to another. It didn’t take long to realize our expectations of our family were not the same in other’s families.
And that’s ok. In our home, it was understood what and why we acted and responded in certain ways. Soon it became just as clear to our kids that everyone around our table were not part of our family. Therefore, they did not abide by the same standards as did we. Makes sense, right?
Every one of the people we’ve had in our home (or car) have been met with and treated with the same worthiness and loving hospitality as the next, and because they were youth, the same caring shield of authority while in our care. Yet, they didn’t live with the same expectation we had of our own children nor did we love them as we love our own.
NOT PART OF THE FAMILY
Simply, they were not part of the family.
The outside world gets this wrong in Christianity, too. We are not all God’s children. Though He created us all in His image and desires...