Family

God created a family because it is in our nature to require communication and a sense of belonging.

Since we broke that sense of belonging with God by sinning, God gave us the ability to create children so that we can have a community to belong to.

It was from the beginning that God separated us into tribes and clans. Starting from Cain founded a city, naming the city after his son, Enoch.

We find comfort and security in our family. When the secure bond between God and us broke, God gave us our family to reflect what we had, and what we can have, with God our Father.

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Psychologists have observed and tested and verified that people who grow up without a family, as orphans, tend to be more defensive, they don't trust easily and the percentage of being mentally and emotionally unstable is higher.

Humans are made to love. Humans are made to have communion with others. Humans are made to have a relationship with God.

Without love (whether from other people or from God), we feel lonely and depressed and our other emotions become very extreme.

Without contact with other humans, we become isolated and many 'good' and 'healthy' characteristics such as kindness, gentleness or even generosity will not be learnt and portrayed.

Without a relationship with God, we feel empty. It is best described as empty because that is exactly how we feel. There is always a spiritual element in us that has been evident from since the stone ages, when people have worshiped almost anything and everything.

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God our Father, gave us our family.

Despite all that has been done to wreck or destroy our relationship with our family, where we are and who we are in our family is God-appointed. Hence, let's not blame God for anything, but in all things, know that God has good plans for all of us.

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