God's Plan For The Family: ...be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"

  ...be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"
                                           - (Genesis 1: 27-28)

                          God never intended the home to be void of love.His desire and purpose was for families on earth to reflect His heavenly home full of love and grace. He desire was for families to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth. God wanted our earthly home to be just like the heavenly home. The establishment of a home of love like that in heaven was to have been the highest privilege of man. However, sin crept in and brought about man's ruin. The father makes the child partaker of a sinful nature, and the father himself feels too sinful to be a blessing to his child. Then, the home too often becomes the path not to heaven, but to hell. But what sin destroys, grace restores! God's grace points back to the restoration of what He intended at creation.
                         It was God's plan for the family with its love and its training of the children to reflect the fellowship of God's home and the love of the Father in heaven.
                        Every parent who is aware of his own shortcomings and longs for wisdom and grace must look back to the heavenly origin of family life. The God who created it has also redeemed it and makes it new. He watches over each family with tender interest, and gives His own Father-Love to every parent who desires to be the Minister of His Holy purpose.

                    If this is your desire, begin by making God's thought your thought. Begin to see the family on earth as the image and the likeness of the heavenly original. Look to God as the Author of your family life and count on Him to give you all that is needed to make it what it should be. Let His Father-Love be your security. As you trust in His adoring love, the assurance will grow that He will enable you to make your home the bright reflection of His own.