Well God knew what he was doing when he put you in the family he did, he has called you to love, value, and protect your family. If you wont love them, who will?
In the book of Genesis chapter 37, we read about a young man named Joseph. Now you think your family is a mess, just read about this family. His brothers hated him, they didn’t have one nice thing to say about him, they mocked him, they were envious of him, they threw him in a pit, and sold him into slavery. Many of us wouldn’t want anything to do with our family after all that, but Joseph realized that you cant just go out and buy a new family member. Despite all that they had done to him, he chose to forgive and still love them. Sometimes people would rather be around everyone else except for their family because they have some problems, but there is a tie that binds us to our family. That simply is “it’s our family!!” We don’t see that tie until it is no longer there and we are away and feel homesick.
No matter what the issues may be in your family or the situations that have taken place, God has called us to that family for a reason. We cannot simply give up on them! Years down the line Joseph’s family comes to him for help, they didn’t even recognize him, he could have easily refused to help them in there time of need. Instead he showed compassion and forgiveness on them. As christians we understand compassion and forgiveness and we need to be showing that to our families no matter what the issues may be.
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