Keeping a family
begins when a man and woman get married. When they are married, they have
become a family. This is the beginning as God ordained it. Having taken the
very important step of being joined in marriage, they begin to bear children or
adopt children as God’s gift to the already existing family.
Before I continue,
it is necessary to mention that though the family has been defined as a social
unit living together; it is more than that. This is because it could be two men
or two women adopting children, with whom they live together. It is not just a
unit; it is a unit of male and female living together, having been legally
joined as husband and wife. Again this is important because people who are
co-habiting cannot say that they have established a family. A family is not
just a couple living together, but a married couple living together.
Now, you may
wonder the reason behind the title I have given this article. Well it is simply
because; we live in a world where people always want things to happen
instantly. Life seems to have become a matter of plug and play in many
respects, with many people overlooking process and preparation in running their
lives.
Perhaps you are
wondering if God did not create the world in an instant. Yes, you are right to
an extent, because He simply spoke most of the things to being. However please
remember that God in doing that, respected process and preparation. He created
certain things before others. For instance, He created the earth before plants
and terrestrial animals; the seas and water generally before fish.
Ultimately he created a habitable garden (using the plants, water and animals already created) for man. So that man did not become a Vagabond on creation. He also divided the work of creation in days. He did not speak everything into being in a day (which I believe He could have done). Though this also brings to mind the principle of rest, it is a factor in the issues of process and preparation, because the space between each day could have been used for further strategizing.
Now the height of
God’s respect for process and preparations was in the creation of man. The Holy
Bible states that He first called a strategic meeting stating the sole agenda
as that of making man, with a vision to make man in His image, He also stated
the responsibilities of man (Genesis 1: 26, 27). Now details of man’s creation
in Genesis 2: 7 further shows that he took time to mould man then empowered him
to become a living soul. More interesting was even the story of making the
woman recorded in Genesis 2: 21, 22. He first put man to sleep, carried out a
major surgery to remove a rib from his body, and then used the rib to make the
woman. Apart from the physical process in this project; have you ever imagined
the strategic thinking that went into coming up with the idea of how to create
a similar specie of the man, before it was executed?
The intention
here is to look at the level of preparation that should go into the desire to
start a family, with a view to understanding the need for strong foundation in
the wake of increased cases of divorce all over the world which is also
contributing to spread of wrong values.
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