Family - Part 3

**If you are wondering where the Title “Family Part 3″ comes from, click on the post to check out the other two post Family - Part 1 and Family - Part 2**

So this idea of Family is really sitting in my head and I am wondering when I will get it all out, but for now I will just keep hitting it. Family, as we defined the tern the last couple of times, is a term used to denote a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage or adoption. There is an underlying implication of this definition and that is growth, for a family to survive it must grow. Recently, my wife and I recently found out that she is pregnant, YEAH!!!! This adds a completely different approach to this topic. I am overwhelmed and scared yet so excited at what God has given us the opportunity to do. It reminds me of when I came to Christ, helpless and hopeless, waiting for someone to help me understand something about the things of God. I learned in stages, grew in leaps and bounds, and made so many mistakes along the way (as I still do). I also have come to the point that I get to lead others through the process as they experience what I did. Each of our contexts is completely different but similar for our experience in Christ and growth with him in our lives. The feeling of inadequacy shouldn’t leave but be contained by the knowledge of a God who stands with us as we deal with the pains of teething, childhood scars, adolescent awkwardness( especially the acne), and then adulthood. 1 Peter 2 1 – 3 talks about the Word of God being like food, the passage says “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” I went over to a friend’s house the other night to have dinner and just relax. It was nice just to sit back, talk and play games. They have a little boy who is about one year old and he is cute but he is completely dependant on his parents. It seems that the Bible implies that we should do the opposite of what we did as children and now adults. As we grow our parents teach us to become more and more independent of them so that we are able to leave home (hopefully) and create your own family. But God asks as we grow in knowledge and faith, that we become more and more interdependent of Him. This is not easy to swallow but worth the effort.
Grow in interdependence….. huh what a call from Him!

~ by Jon Nelson on February 1, 2008.