February
17
We
are His household (Hebrews 3:6 ISV).
With all that the Lord
needs and desires to do in the recovery of His first thought, His original idea
for His people, not the least is the recovery of the spiritual family. Any
fresh movement of God which relates to His original thought will most certainly
re-introduce the spiritual family, and all that that means. That may mean the
breakdown of a lot; it may mean that a good deal of misconception will have to
be set aside; it may be that a whole traditional system will have to be
discarded.
There is a tremendous
value connected with the spiritual family life and with the training in the
family. There is no training better than the training in the family. You cannot
find an adequate substitute in the institution. Really, the Lord’s responsible
and useful men and women are not trained in the institution; they are trained
in the family. It is because of the lack of that family background of training
that so often those who go out into the Lord’s work break down in the matter of
relationships.
The tragedy of so much
of the work of God is the tragedy of broken relationships between workers who
are put together in an organized way, and they have never gone through the
discipline of family life to know how to live triumphantly with difficult
people. There is an immense value in the training of the spiritual family and
that necessitates very close relationships. We have heard Christian people
(church-going people) say that they do not want to come into too close an
association with their fellow Christians and church members; they would rather
not know too much. That is defeat, and that means the loss of a very great deal
for the Lord. The Lord’s way is to bring His people together in the closest
relationship and not to eliminate the most difficult ones. He has a very
peculiar family, made up of all sorts, and some of the sorts are very funny
sorts; and that all provides the basis of a wonderful training.
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