Developing Your Spiritual Growth: Family vs. Christ

In continuing the series and conversation of developing your spiritual growth. We furthered the conversation towards family and the ties and strongholds that often comes with it. We also discussed the difference between family and relatives. How relatives mean you’re just simply related and how with family you have options. You can choose your family to fit your journey in life as well as with Christ. We discussed how family is a reflection of the Trinity. We discussed Gods intentions on creating the family. God created family to carry out his truth. God uses family to teach and illustrate crucial truths to ALL mankind. There are things we cannot easily understand if we do not understand family. When God wants to teach us certain truths, he essentially says, “picture a father and a son, or picture a wife and a husband, or picture a brother and sister.” Because he made these family relationships to be universal, he can use them as pictures in every context and in every age. He starts with the things we know then uses that knowledge as a Segway to the things we don’t know. So if we understand family, we  have language and concepts that helps us understand certain truths about God and his works and his ways. But if we lose family, or redefine it, we begin to lose that language and lose those concepts.