Mom Heart Moments #253

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

WHETHER A TWELFTH-FLOOR APARTMENT in Hong Kong, a weather-beaten farmhouse in England, or a suburban two-story in America, home is the place where souls are shaped and nurtured. Each of us, as mothers, has the ability to picture and embody the life of God in our own homes. We can cultivate samples of His creativity by filling our homes with art —pictures on the walls, books in baskets, arrangements of flowers strewn through our rooms, pianos or flutes or violins or whatever we like readily available so we can all practice music, paints and crayons for drawing pictures of things real or imagined —there is an endless amount of ways to pass on the reality of our living and vibrant God through our home life.

The starting point is to see our home domain as a kingdom. We are the queens, ruling those domains. As sovereigns, we have the responsibility to rule over them with excellence and intentionality, shaping the outcome of the lives lived there. A good queen always leads in the way that will provide best for those under her dominion, and so we may lead well, as we have observed many in history have done, or we may lead poorly, with devastating results for those under our charge.

Learning to embrace this vision is the beginning point of understanding the influence and capacity we have been given by God to lead, build, inspire, and train a generation of Kingdom workers who will bring His light to bear in their generation.

What might you do today to add reminders of all the beauty of God inside your own home?