Ten Commandments For The Home

Ten Commandments For The Home

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance.

Psalm 28:9

What shall it profit men or women if they gain the whole world but lose their own families?

With a 50 percent divorce rate and more and more two-wage-earner households, the home as we have known it in the past, indeed, as God established it, is truly an endangered species.

Marriage and the family were not quaint ideas cooked up by society. The family was ordained of God before He established any other institution, even before He established the church.

I want to suggest ten commandments for a solid, happy, God-honoring home:

1. Establish God’s chain of command. The Bible teaches that for the Christian, Jesus Christ is to head the home, with the wife under the authority of a Christ-like husband and the children responsible to their parents.

2. Obey the commandment to love one another.

3. Show acceptance and appreciation for each family member.

4. Family members should respect God’s authority over them and the authority God has delegated down the chain of command.

5. It is important to have training and discipline in the home and not just for the family dog!

6. Enjoy one another and take the time to enjoy family life together. Quality time is no substitute for quantity time. Quantity time is quality time.

7. Do not commit adultery. Adultery destroys a marriage and is a sin against God and against your mate.

8. Everyone in a family should work for the mutual benefit of the family. No child should be without chores or without the knowledge that work brings fulfillment.

9. Pray together and read the Bible together. Nothing strengthens a marriage and family more. Nothing is a better defense against Satan.

10. Every family member should be concerned about whether every other member of the family is truly saved. This extends after the immediate family to grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousin, and in-laws.

Our Father and our God, I pray for Your blessing on my family. We need You among us, Father, to lead us in unity and peace. Help us grow together through love and laughter, through respect and forgiveness, through good times and bad. Bind us together, Lord, for life. In Your Son’s precious name. Amen.