How to have a Happy Home
November 22, 2004
What is a happy home? Is it no more than a short-order restaurant, or a residential hotel, or just a place to hang your hat? Is it just a house with a big mortgage to pay off? No, a home is a family-people living, growing, learning and creating together. A little boy explained it well when he told an interviewer after his house had burned down, "We still have a home. We just don't have a place to put it in."
Home should be a happy, experience-a haven from the problems of the world, a place of security, laughter, love and acceptance. But, as indicated by the rising divorce rate and a host of family problems, homes are too often places of tension, growing frustration and division-a tug-of-war between very unhappy people.
How can the energy and creativity of your family be harnessed for a happy home? Let's go back to the source. The home is God's idea-not a human invention or a cultural phenomenon. In the plan of creation God designed the home as the foundation of society, to meet the mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of men, women and children.
According to God's Word, the family is a lasting relationship. The Bible states that in marriage a husband and wife become "one" building a permanent relationship. The family is not designed for temporary convenience to be kept together so long as it's fun and pleasing. The family strength is its permanence.
God designed the family as a lasting relationship in which, with His care, humans could weather the storms of life together. The home is Gods' loving plan for growing to maturity.