14e) MAKE YOUR HOME A HAPPY HOME!
Psalm 128:3 NASB, "Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children like olive plants round your table."
Although it is praiseworthy that God should have souls added to His kingdom from unconverted families (after all, this is the purpose of the Great Commission), and yet there is something to be said about being born into a godly family. It is indeed a great heritage to be brought up with parents who love God, who love the Bible and read it at the meal table at least once per day, preferably twice a day.
What a blessing it is to be brought up in the atmosphere of hymns and spiritual songs, surrounded with parents who love each other, and brothers and sisters playing happily with one another. What a blessing to be lovingly trained, discipled, and molded into God's culture of godliness.
This is the home where boundaries are established, where all worldly, fleshly, and ungodly media are strictly guarded and kept out. This is the home that is full of many good things. Children are not bored. Rather they are cultivated into the riches of the true godly Christian culture. This is what we were made for. This is what man was originally designed for.
Psalm 144:15 says, "Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord." Men, may your home a happy one. Our homes should happier than those of the world.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell