It's such a well meaning question, but the most freeing, beautiful, and hard to swallow thing is that it's not about you (or me) at all. It isn't your responsibility to fix the world. Christ has set the world free from the natural course of entropy. Things don't always have to get worse and less chaotic, but left to human will, entropy and chaos is only natural.
So what we need is a supernatural influence. Praise be to God, that Christ has given us the Spirit of Truth, the divine Counselor, to be with us. In the supernatural order of things, the Holy Spirit submits to Christ, who submits to the Heavenly Father. There is beauty in the trust and fellowship of the Godhead. So God has given the family unit as well.
The child submits to the mother,
who submits to her husband,
who submits to the Holy Spirit,
who submits to Christ,
who submits to the Heavenly Father.
As a child grows, a point comes where the child either "becomes a man" or submits to her husband, going out from under her earthly father and mother, but still under submission to the Holy Spirit (the sign of maturity is more closeness with the Spirit).
As a child grows, a point comes where the child either "becomes a man" or submits to her husband, going out from under her earthly father and mother, but still under submission to the Holy Spirit (the sign of maturity is more closeness with the Spirit).
Back to the original point, we should go about our lives reliant on the Holy Spirit. He has a will to bring all things in harmony under Christ, and to make us more like Christ in the process. The plans we have will not compare to the wisdom of the Spirit. So as we provide for our family, growing in obedience in all the ways of Christ's teachings, and in closer fellowship with the Spirit. If we ask the Spirit for direction in every relationship, conversation, and task, our lives will exude the love, hope, and blessings of Christ to our world. But it starts with a humble reliance on the Spirit.
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