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======Family 2 - What Family can be ...======
Thursday, May 6, 2010. A family relationship is different from a business
relationship. This week it is all about relationships! And it is important to realize
what type of relationships we need.
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**Keeping the links?**
When Family relationships work well, then the family members usually keep
their links. They see each other either on a regular basis or at least from
time to time. And they support each other.
I have recently changed the institution I work for, and I was shocked in what
way my predecessor was treated from the administration of my new employer. In
the same way I am shocked how I am treated by my former employer. With the
day when the employment ends, all links are cut by the administration. You
have put years of work into something, and they just take everything away from
you, what they can take: cards, email access, computer access etc. Our
modern institutions have a severe problem: they use people and then throw
them away. The day they cannot exploit them any more, they are trash and they
are treated like that. That is not what family relations are, and it is not
what our relations should be! And in both cases above the people we talk
about still do things for the institutions, they represent them and put work
into them. But that is not a category the administration of these institution
would know or would be able to deal with.
Families keep their links and they have a sincere interest into each other,
even if you cannot be close to everyone at the same time. These links are
even stronger in God's family, if it lives what it is or what it is determined
to be. God links the people of faith by his Holy Spirit.
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**How relations will be**
Relations in the family of God will be different from our worldly relationships.
They will be different from the treatment we experience day by day by our
institutions and processes. The reason for all this is simple: God is different
and God's family is the group of people who have made the decision to give
him the lead over their life. Faith means to say and live: he is Lord!
It is not imaginable, that God forgets someone or that he cuts someone who believes
away from him. It is not imaginable that God lets someone down who hopes for him,
who trusts in him. Even people who do not believe are not easily let gone
by the Lord. He tries to bring us back to him, he tries to find what is lost!
I am looking forward to more and more experiences with the family of the
eternal God. I know that his joy is there with this family. We might not be
perfect, we might even fail strongly again and again, but still there is his
spirit and his power in us, moving us forward and changing the way we think,
feel and act, day by day. Let us live in faith - as his family, where we are
right now!
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