This morning my wife spoke to me briefly and told me about a topic on MSNBC regarding professional women getting pregnant without being married or raising a child without a father.
I think our world is becoming more self-centered rather than God centered. We have become more world centered rather than family centered. It is not anymore a family eating at the dinning table but eat is being in one's own world eating with others friends, other places, other spaces. It has become a world that is in disarray, disequilibrium, and heading toward chaos.
I think the fundamental component of a strong and happy family is a man and woman married with a commitment to God first, then commitment to one another; then having children. The world has taken two things out of an essential ingredient for a healthy, happy, and peaceful family. It can be found in the first few chapters of Genesis. God created man and woman in the likeness and image of him. Also, God rested on the seventh day.
These two things have been taken out of the family unit that we have become godless and more selfish. Like any items we purchase it comes with a user manual. It provides instructions for the optimal usage and durability. The manual usual provide instructions on how to care for the items we purchased. Yet, many of us do not read it before had and figure learn as we go.
The user manual for us is the Holy Scriptures whether we believe it or not. It requires us to set up a family between a man and a woman and to raise children in the love and fear of the Lord. Many of us in society today do not do this. We know of God, we might think he exists, or we are not sure, or altogether believe in no god, but our ourselves.
Simple yet too long to explain. Men in women need to develop a love for God, keep his commandments, learn of His Only Begotten Son, and walk in the meekness and humility of the example of the Savior of the world. If a man and woman does this, they will certainly have their quiver full of the heritage of the Lord - children. Also, man and woman, married in the holy matrimony of God's grace, must use the seventh day to rest and worship God in purity without hypocrisy. Meaning sincerely by spending the time with family and visiting the widows and fatherless. Married couples need to study the scriptures so they can teach their children in the love and fear of the Lord.
This idea of raising children outside the bonds of marriage is totally oppose to the creation of the family. Women's liberation movement has brought on another component that destroy strong and happy families. The man without the woman is not perfect nor the woman without the man. The final destruction of society is when there are no more healthy marriages and two parent families. But, I believe there will be enough healthy two parent families that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and will keep his commandments so that how families were created in the beginning will continues. Man may fail man, but if man put their trust in that Almighty being who is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they will not fail.
For with God no man can fail and without God no man can succeed! Women to be have more responsible loving men. We have so long twisted the right ways of God when it comes to the family that financial stress are beginning to appear in our society. When one parent families try to raise children, the end result is not good - no matter what the financial resources are. Just look at the life of Britney Spears who has the financial resources to do so. There is something intrinsic about raising children in a home with a man and a woman in the Lord.
Believe it or not, I know and testify that this works! I have been married once for almost 14 years and my wife and I have three beautiful and wonderful children.
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