Responsibility to Our Family

Bible readings for the day: Genesis 4-5

Cain and Abel story is a reminder that God must be hold accountable for all of our attitudes and actions toward other people that God placed all around us (Compare this with Ezekiel 3:18).

"Am I my brother's keeper?" (Genesis 4:9) is a reflection of the attitude of Western individualism, which is currently being spread as a result of globalization. Without te-sense, attitudes contrary to the general norms of togetherness in this Eastern world as if he were to accept justification. At present, active, competition, and the difficulties of life make human beings tend to think of himself. More and more elderly people who feel lonely and the children who are not noticed by her parents. In fact, we often encounter struggles between brothers inherited.

In the New Testament, the Lord Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the scribes who regard the maintenance of the parents as less important than religious purposes (Matthew 15:5). The Apostle Paul also rebuked those who ignore the hard responsibilities of the family, "if anyone does not provide for his relatives, let alone the rest of the house, people the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." (1 Timothy 5:8).

Although the burden of this life is increasingly heavy, we must always remember that family care responsibilities who are elderly should not be handed over to the church or charity and responsibility for the care and raising children should not be left to domestic servants.

Genesis 4:10
His Word: "What have you done this? Brother's blood cried unto me from the ground."

Unity in Marriage

Bible readings for the day: Genesis 2

Destination weddings are not that two people like each other are free to have sex or to have offspring, but to a man and a woman love each other can come together to complement each other and help each other.

God created humans as social beings who have a need to relate to others (2:18). The initiative of God to create Eve as a worthy partner for Adam to show that God blessed the marriage between men and women. Even so, to realize that the happiness of a marriage will be determined by the attitude of each partner. Willingness to humble ourselves and each other adjust to the couple would guarantee happiness, but the attitude to maintain their selfishness will destroy a marriage. Note that the union between men and women depicted in 2:24 like two glued pieces of paper together so that each can stand alone.

If not watch out, unity in marriage can be destroyed by a third party. Unity can only be achieved when men and women respectively would leave the attachment with the environment (including the extended family) to look at various problems of life together. This means that each load be a burden shared and individual interests must be compromised to form a common interest. Engagement with others (parents, children, friends) are more powerful than the bond with the wife or husband is a threat to a marriage.

Genesis 2:18
The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."