Chapter 23
The Step Home
Living With a Spouse’s Child or a Spouse’s Relative
- Know that it is not an ideal situation. The children in the house are not staying with
their real father or mother. - Expect some challenges because you have to love a stranger. It may not be easy but it
may be worth it. - Recognize that the fatherless or motherless have a special place in God’s heart and He
has said that He will personally fight those who oppress them.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. And my wrath shall wax hot,
and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your
children fatherless.
Exodus 22:22, 24... thou art the helper of the fatherless. To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that the man of the earth may no more oppress.Psalm 10:14,18- You married your spouse with this background. Accept it.
- You must love them unconditionally (agape) without expecting a reward.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is
not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall
vanish away.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8