Leading My Home Homeward

The war of leading my home daily is a battle of its own. Each day has enough choices and decisions to cause me to want to poke my eyes out. I never thought it was an easy task to lead, and it is one area I have struggled with. I am a man that in many ways felt lost in the task of leadership. How thankful I am that the Lord has not given up on me....He is always faithful to cause gospel growth in my heart. I am finishing up reading Deuteronomy, and found it encouraging when Moses told Joshua, "Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

In light of leading my home, I can be strong and courageous because of God's gospel. He does have a purpose for my family. With the gospel being at the center of my home I can know that He will not leave me or forsake me. There is no reason to fear. Plus God's power is in the gospel. It has the power that can change my heart to lead my home in a way that would be pleasing to the Lord. May He grant me wisdom and discernment in my task of leading my home.

The Lord wants me to lead my family, and He knows where I am weak. Its awesome how much the Lord is growing me in my leadership. I am enjoying the process a lot more then I have in the past. I know there is nothing in and of myself that can cause me to lead God's way. That is why I must daily take my eyes of myself and keep them on Christ and His gospel. How blessed am I. God has been good and gracious to give me a family, and with all my heart I want to bring Him honor and glory in how I am leading my home. I don't deserve the good gifts I have been given, but His love for me causes me to raise my family His way.

Our Pastor-Teacher has been going through the function of the family for a while now. It has been good stuff, and is giving me plenty of things to think about and apply my heart to as I lead my home. I am sure he has said before that to the world, the Christian home is a huge testimony of the gospel being lived out. Because God's ways are always different from the ways of the world, a Christian home should stand out as an odd duck if we are doing things God's way. If my home looks, acts, and functions like a family of the secular world then as far as I see it something is wrong with that picture.

So as I travel through this foreign land in pursuit of heaven where I will spend eternity forever without sin and with Jesus Christ, I only hope is that my family would show off Christ! May my family be a reflection of His gospel. I thank the good Lord for all He has put in my path, and those people He brought into my life that have come along side of me and my family to help teach and grow us in ways we could have never done on our own. One day I will be singing with my Savior, Jesus Christ! Oh for that day! Until then I won't waste my home, my leadership, my life.