For years I’ve read books on parenting and books on marriage.
Some of these books offered some wise godly advice and ideas that I benefited
greatly from, but most of these books had some idea that worked for someone else
and when I tried it, would fail.
Talking to friends, they too experienced this failure.
I believe that the problem is that we all too often look to
these books instead of looking to the best and first book we should be looking
to, the Bible. Thing is, for a long time I thought that the Bible didn’t
specifically say much about parenting and marriage. There are passages and
verses regarding these things but not that many. Turns out, I was wrong. I just
couldn’t see what it said from the perspective that I was looking from. I was
trying to find passages and verses and I learned that I needed to look at the
Bible differently. When I did, I
found that the Bible is the most amazing book on parenting and marriage but you
have to look at it as one whole book with God as the Father of all of us, His
children. When you view the Bible
with that perspective, the entire book is about parenting! Every Word is about God dealing with
His children and therefore when we look at how God deals with us, His children
and parent our children how God parents us, we have all the parenting advice we
need. This perspective opened up a
whole new way of thinking about parenting and it’s the same with marriage. We, believers make up the church and
the church is the bride of Christ.
How does Christ treat us, the church, His bride? When you look at it that way, you will
know how to treat your spouse.
This blog has a goal and it’s not to teach you how to parent,
how to be a better wife or how to live a more godly life but to be an aid in
helping you learn how to see your parenting, your marriage and your life from
the perspective of the Bible and then apply it. The Bible has all the information we need; we just sometimes
need a little help finding it.
