Post by Les Brewer on Feb 10, 2016 0:17:29 GMT
Creating Shade for Your Children, Part 1 Selected Scriptures
God has designed that society exist in families, in families. God designed the family. God created man and woman and said, “Make families.” God repeated that, first of all, when He said that in Genesis 1 there was Adam and Eve. And then after He had destroyed the whole world and came back to Noah, he reiterated that command in the ninth chapter of Genesis, “Make families. Make families. Fill the earth.”
Families are the unit that passes on truth and righteousness from generation to generation. Families are the units that provide discipline and instruction, and therefore create civilization. They hold society together. They provide, as a Chinese proverb says, “Shade for the children” - one generation plants the trees; the next generation enjoys the shade.
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