As Christians, we have a responsibility to care for our families. We have to put in a lot of effort to meet their needs. Paul himself instructed us to work hard in order to avoid poverty. Sometimes, a lot of Christians assert that because we received Jesus, he will provide for all of our needs.
This is an incorrect interpretation because Jesus labored alongside his father and left us with a lesson to learn. Being a great man of God, Paul put in a lot of effort to meet his necessities. Accepting Jesus does not require us to stop working; rather, we must work harder so that we can meet the needs of our families and the church.
Our first priority should be to seek God, and everyone in the family should have the same desire to honor God via their deeds. The Lord will assist us in managing our family in accordance with a great plan if we do our tasks honestly.
To have the mindset of providing for our family in order to appease God’s wrath, let’s read and reflect on the following Bible scriptures.
Genesis 2:15(KJV) And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Proverbs 12:4(KJV) A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Colossians 3:20(KJV) Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Proverbs 6:20(KJV) My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 22:6(KJV) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 11:29(KJV) He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 15:20(KJV) A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Colossians 3:19(KJV) Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 John 4:19(KJV) We love him, because he first loved us.
Exodus 20:12(KJV) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Acts 10:2(KJV) A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Genesis 1:28(KJV) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Ephesians 6:4(KJV) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:16(KJV) Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Joshua 24:15(KJV) And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Psalm 34:10(KJV) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
1 Corinthians 11:3(KJV) But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Philippians 4:19(KJV) But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Genesis 18:19(KJV) For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Acts 20:35(KJV) I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Colossians 3:21(KJV) Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 22:7(KJV) The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Genesis 2:24(KJV) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 6:1(KJV) Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Thessalonians 3:10(KJV) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Psalm 103:17(KJV) But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Colossians 3:13(KJV) Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
1 John 4:20(KJV) If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Ephesians 5:25(KJV) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Timothy 5:8(KJV) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Matthew 15:4(KJV) For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Acts 16:31(KJV) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Proverbs 17:17(KJV) A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Ephesians 5:33(KJV) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Proverbs 1:8(KJV) My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Revelation 1:1(KJV) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.
