"Awake"- Building Your Home Life!

QUALITY HOME LIFE

All relationships are different in some way or another, but there are certain principles in a relationship that apply to every person alive today. These principles were established by our Creator for us. It is so important to pay attention to them and tap into our priceless resources made available for the building of an awesome home life.

People will often agree that God is "love"; but we also have to realize that He is the Master of love. So, that being said, His divine guidance is not going to tell us something that would guide us into a relationship full of hatred, conflicts and abuse. So I urge  us all once more, as we begin to search  out and explore the materials that make a Strong Home, Stay Awake! Pay close attention and get ready to start filling up those abandoned love tanks!

Maybe your love boat, so to speak, has been tossed around in the storms of life and your love tank is empty. Maybe your boat isn't even running, leaving you drifting through life with lack of purpose? If so, please don't abandon ship yet! Just hold on tight and let's find out, as we explore your options for how you can begin to refuel your relation"ship" and get your engines running full throttle again! It will be worth it, I promise!

Note: Remember. A house is a place, a home involves people. Don't be confused.

And since you are reading this right now, you are not alone! Don't hesitate to drop an email anytime and I will help you find a place to call home in your area. There are people waiting to welcome you.

Following my college days, I spent some time in the home building business. We built houses with a few bedrooms made of average building materials and we built other houses out of the same materials, but the rooms were bigger. Then there were a few houses we built that were mansions. The mansions took years of planning and a year or more to build. Many of the materials were ordered special from  international artisans and manufacturers all over the globe.

Once there was a couple who many of you would know if I named them because they own a national company. This older couple made a trip over to Europe to look at a chimney that they saw in a picture and thought they wanted for their home. After seeing it for themselves, they took the Stone Mason back over to Europe with them so that he could get a true understanding of the materials and choice they had made. The stone mason then came back and built the exact same fireplace and chimney in their new home once the stone had arrived by ship from Europe. Now that's quality...and expensive!

Regardless of how much was spent on the materials, whether it be thousands or millions, the cheapest was a house and the most expensive was a house.

The mansion was a better house because of the quality of the products used and it came with allot higher price than the houses built with average products. Value effects the price you are going to pay. You might find this interesting or you may be thinking that I have gotten totally off track talking about building houses, but let's take a few minutes to see how this relates.

We may be working very hard on our home life, but are we using average materials? Some of the things that it takes to build a quality home life are valued highly today, such as our time, respect, worship, obedience, love. In our day many of the self help books teach us to acquire for ourselves the things I just listed in order for ME to succeed. I want to share a  radical  fact to apply to build a quality home life. In the following passage Paul teaches us that we are to give these things to have peace in our hearts, unity, wisdom and encouragement in our home life.

In Colossians, chapter three,verses fifteen through twenty-one, the Bible says, " And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged."

WE NEED THREE QUALITY HOMES

What if I said that everybody ought to have three quality homes. Would you think I had lost my mind? How about if I took it a step further and told you that you ought to build three of those highly valued mansion style homes instead of just average like most of the population. You probably aren't following me, but the fact is that you have the highly valued materials already. Why not invest your God given resources and go ahead and build an amazing home?

BUILDING OUR FIRST HOME

This is the first point that Paul brings to our attention in this life changing passage. What are we doing when it comes to our spiritual home life? Are we asleep and running on auto pilot, driving to church at the scheduled times of service and driving home again week after week? Here is a good way to know if we are using the high quality material to build our spiritual home. Look at what Paul says," let the peace of God rule in your hearts, for this reason also you are called in one body; and be thankful...".  Does the peace of God rule in your heart? Don't just say "yeah". Think about it throughout the rest of today and especially tomorrow as you go through the Lord's day. If you find that it isn't there, don't get discouraged.


Paul mentions this first because the peace of God in your heart is your #1 resource for building the Three Quality Homes that we all need. Without putting the priceless peace of God into your first Home material list, I'm afraid you are going to have to settle for an average spiritual home life. What's really amazing though, is that this priceless item is yours free for the asking! It's between you and God, right now, tomorrow, or next week. God has made us to receive His peace so that we can build upon it. 


Shalom