It All Starts At Home

The home is such an important place and so many times it gets over looked or under rated. The job of a mother or father gets under appreciated. And THIS is so sad to me. Now don’t get me wrong, I have definitely felt like I’m not cutting it at home or that it’s not that important. But listen to this…When Mother Theresa received her Nobel Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?”  She replied, “Go home and love your family.” WOW!!

It all starts at home. When you look at it that way it makes the home seem so much more important. (Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:5-7)  So when you feel down and feel like what you are doing at home is not of great importance, think again. You are the catalyst to your childrens future. With God all things are possible. Making a home a safe pretty place is important…even if it seems like no one cares about it.

God allows us glimpses of the fruit of our efforts. Like when they help out their little brother, or when they come home to tell you about a friend that they met that they want to pray and ask God how they can help them. When they have been saving for months for something they really wanted and then you find out that they gave their money to someone to pay down their cafeteria charges so they could eat that day. That kind of stuff makes it ALL worth it. So it might seem like no one cares about the efforts you make each day to make things PRETTY…but someone cares. When the laundry is all cleaned and put away, the dinner has been made, eaten and then cleaned up and homework is done, baths taken, prayers and kisses and all tucked in for the night, ask God to do something wonderful with all that you gave Him that day.

Colossians 3:23 says , (NCV) “In all the work you are doing, work the best you can. Work as if you were doing it for the Lord, not for people.”

So when we work that way we allow God to work on our behalf.