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Friday, February 28 Whoever has greater affection for father or mother than for me is not worthy of me.​—Matt. 10:37.


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Friday, February 28

Whoever has greater affection for father or mother than for me is not worthy of me.—Matt. 10:37.

 

As Christians, we take our dedication vow to Jehovah seriously. This affects our decisions and actions regarding family matters. We diligently care for our Scriptural family responsibilities, but we never put the desires of our family members ahead of what Jehovah requires of us. (Matt. 10:35, 36; 1 Tim. 5:8) Sometimes, that may mean sacrificing a measure of peace with relatives in order to please Jehovah. He created the family arrangement, and he wants us to have a happy family. (Eph. 3:14, 15) If we want to be truly happy, we need to do things Jehovah’s way. Never doubt that Jehovah cherishes your self-sacrificing efforts to worship him as you care for your family and treat them with love and respect.—Rom. 12:10. w24.02 18 ¶11, 13

You can't walk with God while holding hands with the Devil.

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I love how family comes in the closest second-place possible there could be, right? Jesus' words in the theme scripture, and Matt. 10:35,36 what will divide families in our time (due to false religious teaching; Contrast those with "the first command with a promise" to honor one's mother and father, added to it the kind of love Jesus' shows we should have towards parents when he condemned the Pharisees in relation to the practiced tradition of corban—a wicked arrangement by tradition that kept parents from benefiting from the care of their children by gifts dedicated to Jehovah and the temple. Certainly, Jehovah loves the human family, and it saddens him to see any discord in it, but faithfulness and foremost loyalty is to him first, just by simple fact of he being our Creator. Even the originator of family as said in Ephesians 3:14,15.

'Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has achieved in life as by the obstacles overcome'—Booker T. Washington

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