A Little Book About Christian Family Life
By Alan Toms
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In this little book, Bible teacher Alan Toms takes a look at how God wants Christian family life to operate, including marriage and parenting, and passes on a number of helpful tips to help us succeed!
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A Little Book About Christian Family Life - Alan Toms
CHAPTER ONE: IT’S ORIGIN AND ARRANGEMENT
Dr. S.D. Gordon writing about family life said: A father and mother living together with their children, tender in their love, pure in their lives, strong in their convictions, simple and orderly in their habits, do infinitely more than presidents, governors and legislators can do in making a strong nation.
Doubtless he was correct, for strong family life is the backbone of any nation, and God's holy nation is no exception. Psalm 68 says God has set the solitary in families. It has been so from the beginning, for having made the first man He gave him a wife to be his helpmeet, and then children were born into that family setting. That has always been God's way, and He has arranged it so for His own glory and for the highest good of His creatures. Our great adversary knows this and consequently he is doing his utmost to disrupt family life and to destroy its foundations. Broken homes, single parent families, unwanted and uncared-for children are all too common in our day. Add to that battered wives and children being molested and abused and you have a little picture of how successful Satan has been in spoiling the beauty and happiness God intended in family life.
However, the lovely Bible pattern for godly family life still stands and much is written in the Scriptures for our guidance. We write, therefore, to remind one another of the great foundation principles that God has laid down for a happy and healthy family life.
The father is the head of the home. God has placed him in that position of responsibility and in his father role he takes his example from God Himself. For God is the first Father after whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. It is a special time in a man's life when he becomes a father: something happens in his heart when for the first time he gazes at the precious bundle of life God has given to his wife and himself, and it dawns on him that he is responsible to provide and protect, to nurture and to guide. He may feel a sense of deep inadequacy and at such a time the wise words of Psalm 128 may be a message to his heart. The psalmist writes about a man fearing the Lord and walking in His ways, and to such man who makes this conscious decision the promise is:
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house: thy children like olive plants, round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD
(vv.2-3).
The wife as a fruitful vine is his God-given partner, God's helpmeet for him, to complement him as together they share family responsibility. Clear guidance is given in the apostle's teaching about their relationship to one another as they interact together. It has been well said that the terse instructions of Colossians 3:18,19 are like the two great pillars of Solomon's temple. They gave it strength and stability. And every godly husband and wife will build strength and stability into their family life if they