How to Make Your Family Life Happy, Chapter Fourteen

JEHOVAH GOD wants your family life to be happy. His Word, the Bible, provides guidelines for each family member, describing the role that God wants each one to play.  When family members fulfill their roles in harmony with God's counsel, the results are very satisfying.  Jesus said:"Happy are those hearing the word of God and keeping it!" -Luke 11:28.

Family happiness depends mainly on our recognizing that the family originates with Jehovah, the one Jesus called "Our Father."  (Matthew 6:9) Every family on earth exists because of our heavenly Father-and he certainly knows what makes families happy.  (Ephesians 3:14, 15) So, what does the Bible teach about the role of each family member? 

Next time: DIVINE ORIGIN OF HUMAN FAMILY

From the Book: What Does the Bible Really Teach? 2005 and 2006