Day 16: When it comes to the family, God has an ideal!

Q: What is God’s ideal for the family that was set in motion in the creation of man of woman?

Q: What role does God give each member of the family? How would culture prefer these roles to look?

Q: How do these God given roles for each member of the family align with your experience in your family growing up? In your family now?

Read Matthew 19:3-9

Q: How and why did God make concessions for the real experience of family? How did God imbed His ideal that we should strive for in this passage?

Q: What are the realities of family that most people around us are facing?

Q: How do we balance not giving up on God’s ideal while seeking to heal what is real in our family?

Today’s Prayer: Dear God, I recognize that when it comes to my family, what is real is not always ideal. Help me to experience a picture of ideal from you and not give up on the ideal while I seek to heal what is real.