Through the lens of Young married

Genesis closes with a family that has been wounded for generations finally sitting at one table. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, and the rest. Brothers who sold their brother. A father who played favorites. A grandfather who deceived his blind father. A great-grandfather who lied about his wife twice. That family.

And by the end of Genesis 50, they are eating together. Forgiven. Reconciled. Imperfect but at peace.

You and your spouse came from families. So did your in-laws. Some of those families are warm. Many of them carry wounds. The marriage you are building is the place where two family stories crash into each other and ask, what are we going to do with all of this?

The Father can do with your families what He did with Israel’s. He can take broken lineages and weave them into something that holds.

One small thing this week: name one wound from each of your families of origin that has been showing up in your marriage. Don’t blame anyone. Just name it together. Pray over it. Give it to the Father to repurpose.