The Mystery of Family and Friendship

If you ask your acquaintances why families are created and what a family is, you will most likely hear answers: So as not to be alone or not to die of boredom; To give birth to and raise children; To perform joint ministry; So that the human race does not end; To have legal right and access to the body of the marriage partner; To enter into the inheritance and wealth of the spouse; So that someone takes care of you and feeds you; So that, so that, so that...

Family is the most amazing and diverse cell of any society. Through the family comes the flourishing of any state. Family is that place in which the human soul finds peace and comfort, to rest and gain strength for a new working day.

If you ask more informed specialists about the purpose of creating a family, they will answer that the most important thing in relationships is knowing each other and constantly discovering new features of your partner. And the foundation of these relationships should be the Lord and His Word. And, understanding the goal and having a firm foundation, one can build and plan anything.

Family is what was established and given to humanity by God at creation. By acquiring a family, a person receives something important that is part of his nature. And ideally all people should live in families or have their own good families for good relationships. But what do we see? The enemy of the soul destroys everything conceived by God and presents to the world a mirage that is difficult to catch up with.

But God's plan for the family remains in force, and it must be studied, put into practice, and presented to the world as an unshakable monument to the love and wisdom of the Lord, embodied in people.

Friendship is what, according to God's design, should be present in all relationships between people and constantly delight our hearts with an abundance of warmth and light in such heartfelt interaction.

Love is what binds the souls of people and friends into something beautiful and makes our relationships very tasty and valuable, real and interesting.

Eternity, which we all await, will have in it all these factors of God's scenario, and it is by these laws that we will grow and develop through the unceasing years of eternity. We do not know what families will be like there, how the life of the saved will be arranged, what heavenly holidays will look like, but it can be said that everyone will be merry and very well.

However, God's plan for the last time consists in restoring the ruins of human relationships and showing to all the visible and invisible world God's glory written in the hearts of Christ's followers.

Love for one another, which Jesus commanded us to have before His death, is God's main strategic plan for the last days. Although love has always been relevant and in demand, but because of the multiplication of lawlessness it has grown cold in many and has turned in people's thoughts into ruins of the Middle Ages, which many do not want to approach. But the Lord wants to establish His banner in this area and in this way overcome all sin.

Friendship gives me a person as a person with whom I can have friendly relations and close ties, perform joint ministry and many good deeds for each other and for others. And love for one another makes these relationships special, sincere, unanimous.

Faith in God and unity of opinion create favorable soil for relationships in friendship and love. Having embarked on this path through accepting a mutual decision to be friends and love one another, we invite the Deity into our lives, and the seed of love sown in our hearts begins to sprout and bear abundant fruit and much fruit.

Love for one another opens to loving people the veil of the relationships of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit within Themselves. Loving a friend, I acquire Eternity for myself in these relationships, understanding that I have approached an infinitely beautiful object for deep knowledge that will never end but will constantly delight me with its discoveries and blessings that are contained in the deep bowels of the friend's heart. And in all this knowledge there will be God's seal of infinite wisdom and creative power of our dear Creator.

Nowhere does God reveal Himself so deeply and accessibly as in our love for one another. The Bible acquaints us with the truth about God, nature reveals to us the beauty and majesty of the Creator, Jesus shows us the magnificence of God's character, and love for one another embodies all this knowledge and knowledge of God in the practice and reality of our life, not excluding God from our relationships but revealing Him even more deeply in this mutual love. And as a consequence of such relationships, constant praise and gratitude sounds from our lips to the One who so wonderfully arranged everything.

One who is not born again will not be able to love, for he has no access to this Source of life. But in personal knowledge of Jesus as one's Savior, these sources open for the thirsty soul, and the soul, being satisfied, seeks ways to glorify God.

And the Father is glorified when we, having a connection with Jesus, begin to love one another and in this love bear much fruit of the Holy Spirit.

To create a happy family is a good plan, and true happiness has its laws that are worth knowing and observing. It would be ideal if people believing in God, having unity of faith, would first become friends and in this friendship make a decision to love each other always, and then, rejoicing in this love, determine for themselves a life companion with whom they would decide to create a happy family union. Then there would be no family conflicts, divorces, and children orphaned with living parents.

Love for one another is a great mystery of God's presence in the relationship of two people. And when these loving friends decide to create a marital union, then this spiritual mystery becomes even more incomprehensible from the outside but opens its doors to deep knowledge of each other and God in these relationships. And this mystery is very great.

When I am just embarking on the path of love for one another, I already understand that I am plunging into something great and inaccessible that I did not know before. And the creation of a family in such a union of two friends is an incomprehensible cosmos with all its amazing mysteries and discoveries that you learn from within.

To understand how incomprehensible everything I describe is, try to explain why Christ needs a bride with whom He plans marriage, as the Bible says. This is an incomprehensible mystery that will soon become reality and will reveal to the bride the beauty of relationships from within, and will give the entire Universe food for thought and solving this great riddle.

That is why the enemy of the soul now so fiercely attacks the institution of the family, wanting to make it a curse and an unbearable burden for humanity.

But God's plans are carried out no matter what. Love paves the way. Those people who want to embark on the path of love will know from their own experience the advantage of such a life and will never choose anything else.

For a very long time the enemy imposed his abominations on the world. Now the time has come to love, the time has come for God to act, for His law has been broken.

Where will I be in this confrontation? Only I decide. Where will you be, friend? It is for you to decide. And let us unite in love for one another and see how good the Lord is?

1. Please read 1 Pet. 1:22; 1 Cor. 1:4-10; 3:10-17; 4:1-2; 13:12-13; Eccl. 3:1,8; Ps. 119:126; Col. 3:18-19; Eph. 5:25,31-33; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:2; John 13:34-35 in light of this topic.

2. What did you understand from this topic?

3. What other verses from the Bible came to your mind?

4. Why are families created?

5. Do you know God's ultimate plan for the family?

6. Is it clear to you why Jesus decided to create a family with His bride?

7. Is it worth despairing if you already have a family that differs from the ideal and burdens you?

8. Does love and friendship have any relation to family?

9. Will the decision of two friends who love each other to create a joint family be some terrible mistake?

10. How do you understand, in light of the lessons covered, the purpose of creating a family?

11. Is it worth creating a family to avoid fornication? 1 Cor. 7:2

12. Do you think the Lord will reveal the mystery and meaning of a happy family to those who will build it and ask Him about it?

13. Is it worth creating families at all in the last time?

14. Is the thought clear to you that your life companion in Jesus is an eternal person given to you for eternal discoveries?

15. Will it be interesting for you to eternally study your friend, discovering new features of his soul?