Bible Verse of The Day – 8-24-16

Ephesians 6:4 (NKJV) 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

God has laid it upon our heart this past week, reminding us that families need our prayers.

Some families have lost the simplicity of spending time together; eating together, laughing together, praying together, talking and spending time just being a family.

It doesn’t matter how many people or parents our family is made up of. We need to be consistent in spending meaningful time with each other. How do we train or bring up our children properly if we do not spend time together?

It’s not hard nowadays to lose sight of the important things like “family time” with all the distractions around us. Things like finances, sports, work, internet, TV, etc., can take up a lot of our time if we’re not careful.

Maybe it’s time to take a good look at where most of our time is spent and rearrange some things. It’s time to get our priorities in order.

Family is our blessing and it’s our responsibility to bring them up correctly! It’s something that we need to keep at the top of our list of priorities, spending time together, training, teaching and loving on them, just as the Lord loves on us.

God, thank you for families today. And please help us to make time for each other. Amen.