When a Family Member Acts Up

[271 words] When I was a young youth minister, a fellow with which I served had a young wife. It was disappointing to the congregation and devastating to the preacher when he returned home from a long day at work to discover that his wife had packed up nearly everything of value in the house, emptied their joint banking account, and left him to take up with another man. Family members have a way of breaking our hearts and leaving us depressed with feelings of rejection. When this happens to you, remember the following three truths. Every family has some knots in their family tree. The very first couple (Adam and Eve) had a son that murdered his brother. David had two sons who broke just about every law of decency (Amon and Absalom).  Even the innocent Jesus had an ancestor who had sex with her father-in-law (Tamar). And our…