I'm Done

I've been out of whack the last couple of days and today, things finally came to a head when 2 of my kids came to blows over a silly situation that didn't even need to happen. We ended up having a family dinner tonight and talked about the things that the family isn't doing very well and what we expect in the future in terms of actions and behavior. My wife and I are absolutely wiped.

I'd planned on sharing some pretty incredible things I've been listening to in 1st Corinthians, but I just don't have it in me tonight. It's funny though; some of the scriptures I was going to post actually apply to the situation above. Instead of talking about the unchecked corruption in the church eventually causing issue in the whole body, I find that the very same lessons apply to our own families, even though the context is slightly different.

Anger, bitterness and hatred can destroy a family like a form of cancer. All it takes is one hurtful comment to begin the chain reaction. If left uncorrected, the damage will grow and spread. Before long, everyone is fighting, saying hurtful things and the family as a whole is no longer healthy- they're stressed out, depressed and defeated.

Let's kick out the damaging habits, words and actions which may be occurring right at home. How can we expect to share the good news with the world, if we can't even manage our most precious human relationships?

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (English Standard Version)

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Timothy 3:2-7,12

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap. A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

Good Night