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God will use your family to do a great work in you.
Maybe you have a really great family with parents who support you, or maybe you have a difficult family where no one really communicates with one another. Obviously, it is easier to grow up in a home where mom and dad are there, they support you, and you have siblings who are your close friends. Unfortunately, the reality for many students are that they live in broken homes, or homes with a lot of unhealthy dynamics. But did you know that God will use your family, even if they are messed up, to transform you?
Philippians 1:6 (NIV) “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
God knew exactly who He wanted you to be.
You may not be in the perfect family. Well, there is actually no such thing as the perfect family. However, you might be in a family that has some really difficult dynamics. But God chose for you to be in this family. This is why we can be so confident that God has a purpose for you in your family. He put you there.
Psalm 139:13 (NIV) “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
You didn’t choose your family, but you can choose how to respond to them.
You may feel powerless in your family, but that’s not true. You have the power to choose how you will respond to the people in your family. You can choose to serve them or ignore them. You can choose to love them or be bitter toward them. You have the power.
Ephesians 5:21 (NIV) “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
God doesn’t tell us to treat others based on how they treat us. Quite the opposite. Jesus calls us to treat the members of our family the way we would want them to treat us.
Luke 6:31 (NIV) Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Watch and Discuss:
- What did you think of this week’s video? What’s something you took away from it?
- What do you love most about your family? Why?
- What’s one thing you would change about your family? Why?
- Read Luke 6:31. What do you think this verse means and is talking about?
- Would you say you treat your family the same way you want to be treated? Why or why not?
- On a scale of 1-10 (10=the best) how good would you say your family structure is? Why did you choose that number?
- What’s one thing you can do to help improve your family dynamics? How will you begin to do that?
