19 Aug From War Zones to Warm Homes
There’s just something about an early morning routine (or lack of routine!) that gives you a good idea of how your family operates. I’ll ever forget when all four of our kids were in school at the same time. I’d wake up to Tamara’s voice on the other side of the house, “Is your uniform ready? How about your jersey? Have you eaten breakfast? Where’s your lunch?”
It didn’t take long for her to realize that she needed a system—some kind of plan to make her mornings run much smoother. So, lunches started being packed the night before, uniforms were laid out and papers were signed before the kids went to bed, and clothing as labeled either “wash,” “iron,” or “Febreeze” (anyone else?)!
The fact is that order creates peace. It’s like that in our schedules, in our workplaces, and in our homes. God has a divine order for our families, and when we honor it, we invite peace into our homes. 1 Corinthians 11:3 gives us that order. It says, “I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”
So, as Jesus submitted His life to God, the man is to submit to Jesus. Then, the wife is to submit to the authority of her husband.
Now let me be clear- submitting is not allowing someone to run all over you. It’s submitting to the mission of who God has called you to share your life with. The fact is that if home is going to be a happy place, it has to be about we, not me.
So how can we do that? How can we start on this path to getting our lives and families in order? First of all, we have to choose not to waste the season that we’re in. It can be easy to look at our curret season and think, “Oh, we can fix it after the kids get a little older, or after my husband settles into his new job.” No, the time is always now.