God's Goals For Your Roles: Devotions From Time Of Grace MinistrySample

FAMILY GOALS: I NEED MY FAMILY Among the cruelest and stupidest words known to man are the words, "I don't need you." These have been flung at family members by disgruntled spouses and angry kids. Nothing could be more wrong. You only get one set of birth relationships. Our identity and security are wrapped up with these sometimes nice and sometimes foolish folks. Whenever we cut these ties, something dies inside us. Conversely, the more we tend these relationships, the better we take care of them, the happier and more fulfilled our lives will be. An amazing widow named Ruth came to realize not just how much her also-widowed mother-in-law Naomi needed her, but how much Ruth herself was depending on Naomi. The dear older woman was ready to set the younger woman free of any sense of obligation, but Ruth wouldn't hear of it. "Where you go I will go. . . . May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me" (Ruth 1:16,17). Can you get the words "I need you" past your teeth today?