God's Family and Ours

Taken in the right context, one might say,”God is a family man.” One of His first acts in creation was the establishing of the family. And Jesus’ first social function was attending a wedding, the beginning of a family.

God has a Kingdom and Satan has a kingdom. God has a family, referred to in scripture as, “The Family of God.” But Satan does not have a family! He was once, so to speak, a member of God’s loving family, but choose to leave it so he could have his own way.

Satan hates God’s family, and because he cannot attack the Father directly, he assails the objects of His love, His children. He is out to divide a house against itself, knowing how devastating this is to a parent. He creates a “great gulf” between them so that,"they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence." 

In the Christian family, only Christ can bridge this great chasm. He is the link that makes two one again. All the secular and religious means in the world cannot, if you permit me, "put Humpty-Dumpty back together again." Until Christ is put first in all our lives, there will be no partying "at the Father's House." 

"And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry."