*HOW IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SIBLINGS?*
YOUR RELATIONSHIP TODAY
(An All-Round Bible-Based Relationship Teaching)
READ THESE BIBLE PASSAGES
Psalm 23
Genesis Chapters 26 and 27
John Chapter 12
The Bible says, “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.” (Proverbs 18:19, KJV)
Do you know that some of the greatest battles in life and the most difficult to conquer have come from family members, especially siblings.
But what many of us don’t understand is that most of these battles could be avoided and ought to be, by developing some family relationship skills and making use of simple relationship tips.
If you don’t know how to relate well with your brothers and sisters, you’ll be creating a very big problem for both yourself and your children, whether in the present or the future.
I believe that family battles are the most difficult to conquer, I also believe they are the easiest to avoid. The avoidance of such battles begins with how you relate with your siblings.
*Always treat your siblings with honour and respect. Always apologise to them whenever you offend them or whenever they feel offended.
Even if you feel you’re in the right and they in the wrong, you can still with wisdom bring them to terms with you.
Do you know all it would cost you to say “I’m sorry” is just the move of your lips and a smile? Why would you want to destroy your blood relationship because you want to claim your rights?
If you’re the firstborn, you must be a leader to your younger ones. You must work with them in such a way that when your parents are no longer alive, they will be able to look up to you, listen to you and always obey you like you’re their father or mother.
But, to be such regarded, you must have shown them great love, make sacrifices on their behalf, and make them know you truly care about them.
As the oldest sibling, you need to be on the lookout for your younger ones, whether you’re all still teenagers living with your parents, in different tertiary schools apart from one another, or already married and giving birth to children; you must hold the family together and call them on the phone from time to time. Don’t wait for them to call you, you call them.
If you’re a younger sibling, regardless of how your parents brought you up, you must give due and great honour to your older brothers and sisters.
Stop holding unto past offences. Stop complaining about how they wronged you. You’re only seeing your side of the story, you can’t tell how many times you’ve wronged them in the past and they’ve let go.
You must reach out to your siblings today and allow love to grow and peace to reign amongst you.
Our lives would be easier if we all take our brothers and sisters as very precious and make them know how important they are to us.
See the way the Amplified Version of the Bible puts that Scripture: “A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city, And contentions [separating families] are like the bars of a castle.” (Proverbs 18:19 AMP)
If a brother offended is such hard to win over, that it would be easier to win a perfectly protected and heavily fortified city than it is to win him, how difficult would it be to win a sister offended.
This is what has been separating many siblings and breaking many families apart for years, and the separations turn into enmity, then the enmities are handed down from one generation to another.
So, it moves from siblings quarrels to cousins battles. Then one becomes a witch and another a wizard. That’s how many innocent brothers and sisters, aunties and uncles have been given undue titles and the families becoming wider apart by the passing of each day, week, month, year and generation.
Everything begins with simple offences, quarrels or disagreements, that could have either been prevented or settled with simple relationship skills, humility and sincerely saying “I'm Sorry.”
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