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The image of God in my household begins with me:
1. Reflect the harmony of the Godhead.
2. Reflect the Heart of the covenant of God.
3. Reflect the Holiness of God’s Image as earth keepers.
Reflect the harmony of
the Godhead.
The first family was put together against the back drop of
cosmic rebellion and chaos. “Let us” is the language of harmony. Male and
female were created to express and experience this harmony.
What is this harmony in
the Godhead?
He exists as one God in three persons- each person uncreated,
eternal, equal and fully God.
Three persons exist in relationship roles as Father, Son and
Holy Spirit. This models headship and submission in equality and harmony.
(perichoresis)
When sin entered the world, it ruined the harmony of marriage
not because it brought headship and submission into existence, but because it
twisted man’s humble, loving headship toward hostile domination in some men and
lazy indifference in others. And it twisted woman’s intelligent, willing,
happy, creative, articulate submission toward manipulative obsequiousness in
some women and brazen insubordination in others. Sin didn’t create headship and
submission; it ruined them and distorted them and made them ugly and
destructive. – John Piper
Reflect the Heart of
the covenant.
God’s original goal is to have godly offspring to reproduce
faithfulness and in order to do that we have to model godliness. We have to
model covenant not contract love.
A covenant says:
We will help each other
more like Christ, we will hold each other accountable for our vows as long as
we both shall live not as long as we both shall love changes “I DO” to “WE CAN”
with God’s help.
There is a sea of uncertainty in our culture but when you are
a covenant keeper an a vow maker, you create a hand in your own future of
making something predictable and that is your response to whatever is brought
your way.
Reflect the Holiness of
God’s image as Earth keepers.
Life and order is the stamp of holiness, of health of
wholeness.
People learn better when they are surrounded by tidiness,
cleanliness, order and beauty. –Paul Kohls
Scripture references:
‘Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ’. -Ephesians 5:21,
‘Then God said, “Let us
make man in our own image, after our likeness…”’Genesis 1:26,
Did he not make them
one, with a portion of spirit in their union? And what was one God seeking?
Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be
faithless to the wife of your youth -Malachi 2:15,
But Jesus called them
to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,
and their great ones exercise authority over them…even as the son of Man came
not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many -Matthew
20:25,28,
‘And God said, “Behold,
I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of the earth,
and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food,’ - Genesis
1:29.
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