God Sets the Solitary in Families

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Where would you be without your family? Since I married later in life I had time to consider this. My immediate family is small and far away, my parents are both dead, so I guess I would be quite alone in the world’s eyes.

Even now that I am married and have three young adult children my husband’s family is also small and his parents are dead so we still have a small number of extended family members and they too live some distance from us.

That’s where God’s promises come in. For instance, Psalm 68:6 says, “God sets the solitary in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.”

On the evening before a recent holiday we found out that our family of five would be alone since extended family members were not going to be able to join us. We decided to call a family from church that has family in the area and would usually be with them but had decided to stay home because they were too weary to travel. To our surprise the said they would come and have dinner with us.

We combined our meals and gathered together for feasting and celebrating. What a wonderful day it turned out to be.

If we had each been with our own families we would have enjoyed them, but there was something special about being with brothers and sisters in Christ that made our day exceptional. Most of our extended family members aren’t saved, so holidays can be a stressful time. Being with a like-minded family and celebrating was such a blessing.

Their younger children enjoyed being with our older children and our older children enjoyed being with their younger children – imagine that! No one had a same age pal to hang out with, but then we both homeschool so no one really pays attention to anyone’s age but just enjoys them for who they are.

Even with eight children in the house we moms enjoyed leisurely conversation over several cups of coffee. We even had some “alone time” to discuss some more serious subjects.

The dads and children enjoyed some outside time, some inside time, and a good time was had by all. They stayed so late that the children were getting hungry again so we pulled out the ham and rolls to make sandwiches and enjoyed an impromptu meal in the kitchen while we discussed the fun things we had been doing.

I think this was a perfect example of a time when the family of God became our family and we became their family. It isn’t always possible to be with extended family, or perhaps like us, you have very little extended family. But you can trust the Lord to set you in a family if you ask.

Here’s the link I promised –
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Finding Joy in the Journey,
Phyllis

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