STEEMCHURCH: Principles to strengthen the family.

"BE fruitful and become many and fill the earth." (Genesis 1:28.) With these words addressed to Adam and Eve, Jehovah God gave birth to the family institution (Ephesians 3:14, 15). That first couple could foresee for the future an Earth full of their descendants, an extended family of perfect people who would live happily in a terrestrial paradise worshiping united to their Magnificent Creator. But Adam and Eve fell into sin, and the Earth was not filled with righteous and God-fearing people (Romans 5:12). On the contrary, the human family deteriorated immediately, and hatred, violence and lack of "natural affection" have predominated, especially in these "last days" (2 Timothy 3: 1-5, Genesis 4: 8, 23; 6: 5, 11, 12). The first thing you have to do to teach your children to love Jehovah is to love yourself. Intense love of God will motivate us to faithfully obey all of his instructions, including raising children "in the discipline and mental regulation of Jehovah" (Ephesians 6: 4). God advises parents to set an example for their children, communicate with them and teach them. Deuteronomy 6: 5-7 says: "You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your life force.

Jehovah wants all families to be spiritually strong and united. If we really love God and do our best to obey his Word, he will bless our efforts and give us the strength to follow his inspired counsel (Isaiah 48:17, Philippians 4:13). Remember that the opportunity we have now to teach and educate our children is limited and will not be repeated. Let us do our utmost to put into practice the counsel of the Word of God, and Jehovah will bless our commitment to form a strong family in a spiritual sense. God formed and modeled man and woman and then arranged them within matrimonial units. God's blessing on each of these couples would be shown when they conceive a new person that resembles both father and mother. God promotes this process by ordering couples to be fructified and multiply.

Marriage is not man's idea, it was divine idea. God created man with the ability to feel attraction towards the opposite sex: man towards woman, woman toward man. God gave Adam a suitable helper, a companion; a woman who was the support, the support; that both were a team. In his infinite wisdom, God chose two completely different people from each other, and after these two people make a permanent and faithful love pact, a miracle occurs: these two beings are mysteriously merged into one.

The blessing comes in fullness not when people are single, but when they get married. God blessed the couple and both received the same degree of responsibility. If the couple can stay in full harmony, these three blessings will remain upon them: Fructified, multiplied, señoread.

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