Changing the world for God can sound easier than loving the people close enough to frustrate us. Exodus 20:12 brings that struggle home: “Honor your father and your mother.” If following Jesus takes practice, why does God begin our training in love with the first neighbors most of us ever know?
Do we treat God’s wisdom as our closest friend?
Unlike most things in life, family is the one thing we don’t get choose and it is certainly an institution God calls us to honor. But is “Family everything” as the old saying goes?
