Parenting, Marriage, and the Image of God

What does being created in God's image have to do with parenting?

This question was at the center of our dating relationship.  The answer that we found in God's Word, would shape all of what was to come in our marriage and in the journey of parenting. 

How we choose to answer big questions like these can have a lasting impact on not just ourselves, but future generations.  For us, it meant taking God at His Word, that He is the Author of Life, and that by our very nature we are made to image God through marriage and parenting.  In fact, the very acts of marriage and childbearing, are a picture of the love we see in the Trinity and the resulting outflowing of life, all of creation.

There is no doubt then, as to the reason why God gives the first command of "be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth..." (Gen 1:28).  He has in mind for His image-bearing creatures to image Him in the act of co-creating with Him through the union of love and oneness that we find in marriage.  It's a picture of Him.

The task is also one that is beyond the present.  The task is too great and too lofty for one generation to undertake.  It would be the task of the generations to carry out.  Because the Lord is an abundant who creates everything in abundance, from the countless stars in the sky, to the countless grains of sand on the seashore, so His image bearers are to create in abundance.

Join us in this week's episode for how these great truths have shaped our marriage and parenting!