Someone has said that it is never right to set aside doing right in order to achieve what is right. Yet that’s what we see in our text for today in what is considered the saddest chapter in Genesis. We have a family at odds, some who don’t want to obey God’s will, some who want God’s will but want to achieve it in their own way. As we consider the new year ahead of us, this passage provides some things to consider for our own walk with God as individuals, families and as a church family. A good practice for life in this year is to follow the advice in James 3:16-18. If we do that we are less likely to have a family feud. Perhaps the best advice for getting along as a family and for obeying God is the two-fold principle to love God first with everything we have and then love others as ourselves.
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