how is our relationship with your friends and family similar to our relationship with god?
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Answer:
it's excellent and I think my parents are my God only
Explanation:
There’s probably no natural bond that we have in this life that is stronger than the connection we feel to our families. Shared time and experiences establish this connection. We see ourselves in members of our family. We remember changing diapers, helping them learn to walk, or ride a bicycle. We remember being helped by parents, grandparents, and siblings through the ups and downs of life, as well as those joyous times relaxing at home, going on vacation, or experiencing the first steps of each new stage of maturity. Hard work goes into family relationships. The tears, laughter, and memories we share with our parents, children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and grandchildren bind them to us in ways that words cannot even express—they are a part of us. As Christians much of what it means to be a faithful child of God is to serve our families in the right way. Paul told Timothy that one who neglects his responsibility to his family has, “denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever” (1 Tim. 5:8, NKJV).
In spite of how strong this connection usually is, it is also clear from Scripture that there are times when Christians cannot allow the bond to their family to be stronger than their commitment to God. Jesus said, “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me” (Matt. 10:37). Jesus was not teaching that we should abuse our families. He was not urging us to disregard or treat our families as unimportant. He was calling upon us to value the commitment to Him above the strong loyalty we feel to our physical families.
This can be a challenging thing. When a member of our family goes in a direction that is contrary to the teaching of God’s word it’s easy to be tempted to compromise our convictions. We say to ourselves, “maybe it’s not so bad after all.” Or, “maybe I’ve been looking at it all wrong.” We have all seen examples of this. Once faithful Christians have been led away from Christ—not by some fleshly lust or worldly temptation that overtakes them, but by the unfaithfulness of someone in their family.
Throughout Scripture we see examples of those who became guilty of this. Eli was a priest of God responsible for teaching the Israelites and offering sacrifices on their behalf. Yet when his own sons practiced wickedness, “he did not restrain them” (1 Sam. 3:13; cf. 1 Sa. 2:12-17, 22). David was a man after God’s “own heart”(Acts 13:22) and yet when his son Amnon sinned by raping his daughter Tamar (2 Sam. 13:1-15), his failure to confront and punish this sin ultimately motivated the rebellion of another son—Absalom (2 Sam. 13:20-29). Tolerance and indifference to sin always leads to more sin!
Why would the Lord demand that we value our relationship with Him above those related to us by blood? Why does one whom we have never seen call on us to be more committed to Him than to those we can see and touch and towards whom we feel such a close connection? There are several reasons that we can consider that are clearly taught in Scripture.
1. By loving God above all we set the right example for our family. As tempting as it is to compromise convictions when our family does wrong, we must realize it does them no good to follow their example of unfaithfulness. In the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 what good would it have done if the father had begun to practice the same “loose living” (Luke 15:13, NASB) as his rebellious son? What if the older brother had not remained faithful? Would the unfaithful son have ever been motivated to return home if his former family lived just like he did? If we do not remain true to the Lord when a family member falls we offer them no faithful example to follow—we leave them no faithful home to which to return should they choose to repent.