Greetings in Christ Jesus, Fellow Soldiers.
Why do we miss our families so much? Is it because our relationships are always flourishing? Are our conversations always edifying? Perhaps it is the ways in which we also sacrificially love each other at great expense to ourselves? We all know better than that.
Our relationships, like our very natures, are infected by sin. But in marriage, and with children, we are bound for lifetime to unconditionally love another who is infected by sin like us. In the case of kids, we often must do so without any sort of reciprocal love--they are totally dependent on us.
Each day, infected by sin as we are, we remember that we are sinners saved by grace loving sinners saved by grace. And as we remember the cost of Christ's redemption of sinners like us, we are enabled by His Spirit to love our families with grace.
Why do we miss our families so much? Because within them, we are given painful and wonderful evidence that grace abounds to the worst of sinners (1 Tim. 1:15-17).
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