How did your home-life impact you? Your parents and their marriage? Your siblings and the ways you were taught to treat each other? God’s original purpose in the Garden of Eden was for mankind to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” We are His image-bearers to expand His glory, but as we know from the Word of God something went very wrong. But this in no way changes His design for home and family.
The nature of redemption is to “buy back” what has been lost. This is true in all aspects of marriage and family. A Kingdom home is redemptive. It takes what is wrong, missing, and lost and buys it back from death. It has little to do with financial prosperity or the recognition of others. Our Father’s ultimate goal is to allow us to be a part of His forever family. This is exactly the purpose and reason for doing all we can to accomplish family His way. In fact, God IS family. He is Father. Jesus is Son. Wisdom is Mom. We like to call her “lady wisdom” (ask Grok re: Proverbs).
There are 150 Psalms within the Hebrew writings. Two of them specifically focus on the connectedness which makes a Kingdom Home. Psalm 127 says this: “Unless the Lord builds the house, they work in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to retire late, to eat the bread of painful labors; for He gives to His beloved even in his sleep. Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.”
√ We are partners in building with God. He is the contractor.
√ He is the protection over what and who we build.
√ Working hard is good, but openness to His providence balances how we value and extend our energy and time.
√ Those who belong to God receive blessing from Him, whether our hands are lifted upward or not.
√ Our children are designed with a God-purpose of hitting the target.
√ This gives worth to our labors – the work of our hands.
Psalm 128 expands on this:
“How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord and who walks in His ways. When you eat of the fruit of your hands you will be happy and it will be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, and your children like olive plants around your table. This is how the man will be blessed – the one who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from His holy mountain, and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Indeed, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!”
√ True reverence for God results in walking in His ways.
√ The fruit of your hands will then be satisfying.
√ Your wife will bring life-flow into your home.
√ Your children will grow and produce the flow of the Spirit to those around them.
√ The peace of the purposes of God will allow you to see your children’s children in a satisfying way.
Building a Kingdom Home is meant to be one of the great rewards of life!
Dave and Burnadette
More:
Book: God’s Man/God’s Women: Making It Count!
Course: My Strong Home