Family

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 1st of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Numbers 12:4:

“Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, ”Come out you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.’

Then we go to Ephesians 5:22:

”Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Then verse 25:

”Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,…”

Then the last one is Ephesians 6:1:

”Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” 

We’re talking about family. You know it’s the hardest place to be a Christian, in your own home! Let’s be honest with each other this morning. We are talking about an incredible family. Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Do you know that Miriam was the older sister of Moses and Aaron was Moses’ older brother, he was Moses’ right-hand man? This wasn’t just any family. This was a very special family in God’s eyes and yet they fell out. They had an argument, so badly that God had to intervene, and He told them to behave themselves.

I want to say to you today, you have been put in a family by God. You can’t choose your family, can you? Yes, what do they say? You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. We need to work it out. Now God put a system in the family and this is how it works, I’m telling you, it says it in the Bible: Wives, you are to submit to your husbands, husbands you are to love your wives, and the Bible says, children you are to obey your parents. If you get that right then you are going to have a very special family. 

So what can we do about it? Number one, we need to start praying together every day. ”No, but I don’t want to.” It’s not about what you want. It’s about what God wants. Pray together, all of you, whether it’s in the morning before you go to school, or go to work, or whether it’s in the evening before you go to bed, pray together.

What’s the next thing? Talk to each other. Sit down and talk about it. That’s exactly what happened with Moses, Aaron and Miriam and God sorted it out.

I remember an old couple. They told me that they used to lie on their bed on a Sunday afternoon and talk about all the things that had gone wrong during the week, and ask each other for forgiveness and get ready to face the new week. 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day together as a family. 
Goodbye.