Family Ties

The Facebook Family

Social media has become the standard by which we judge our families.

We see post after post of the “perfect” family. We get told how we are supposed to treat our kids.

How we are supposed to treat our spouses.

Ruby Franke

She was a social media influencer who gave everyone advice on how to raise their children.

Look at this beautiful family........... Happy, healthy, the perfect family.

However, some of you may recognize this woman.

In reality she is Ruby Franke the Utah mother who was convicted of four counts of child abuse. The story is filled with disgusting accounts, of abuse, isolation, starvation, etc.

We live in an external world.

We judge everything on the surface, but what about what is below the surface?

The Constant Shift

Here is a major issue with the world’s view on parenting and families.

It changes daily.

There is a constant fight to “end the patriacrhy”

Destroy the traditional family.

Roles constantly shift.

Men should become effeminate

Women can do anything men can do.

Children should be our friends and have equal say in the rearing.

Everyone is an “expert” and everyone wants to have the next great relationship and parenting hack.

Here’s the issue, the “hack” was given to us thousands of years ago and is relevant today.

The reason people have strayed is because it goes against their feelings and exposes their lifestyle.

The struggle society has with God and His word, is that it is unwavering. It does not care about your feelings. IT IS TRUTH!

No matter how I feel, if God’s Word doesn’t support it, it’s wrong.

People don’t like that. We want our way and we want everyone to agree with us. When we don’t we get alienated and told we are hateful, biggoted, and behind the times.

At this point in my walk, no greater compliment can be given to me than to be told I am behind the times. I don’t live in today’s “time” I live in the eternal unwavering time of the Word of God.

And if we just look, God gave us instruction as Man and wife and as parents.

So let’s explore.

The Husband

Ephesians 5:23 NIV

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

1 Timothy 3:1–4 NIV

Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.

Ephesians 5:25 NIV

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

1 Peter 3:7 NIV

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

1 Timothy 5:8 NIV

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 6:4 NIV

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.