You Can Have Peace within Your Family (TMF:660)

Friday, June 02, 2017
Peace to Live By: You Can Have Peace within Your Family (TMF:660) - Daniel Litton
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       Point number five is: You Can Have Peace within Your Family. Colossians 1:19-21 says, “You wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you. And you husbands must be loving and kind to your wives and not bitter against them nor harsh. You children must always obey your fathers and mothers, for that pleases the Lord. Fathers, don’t scold your children so much that they become discouraged and quit trying.” (TLB). Basically, these three verses give you the formula for a peaceful household. So, there are four sub-points to note here. Sub-point one is that wives need to be willing to follow their husbands wherever they are leading. God has setup the household in such a way that the husband is the leader, the one person whom the wife and children are to follow. I understand that for some this may seem foreign, as our society has messed this one up quite a bit. But when a wife leads and the husband follows, that produces discord and a lack of peace—for the husband obviously because he has not been wired to follow his wife, and it causes perhaps unrecognized problems for the wife. She is not following the role God has designed for her in following her husband.