Comfort at home

Is your home a safe place?

I was watching this crazy show last night called hoarders. Have any of your seen this? They find these houses that have come to these crazy places of not just clutter but strait up floor to ceiling piles of garbage, it might look ok at the top of the pile but by the time they get to the bottom we are talking bug infested garbage. One of the houses they showed last night was so bad there was no access to food or bedroom. Child services gave then five days to get it cleaned up before they would be prosecuted for neglect. One of the kids made the statement ,"I just don't even want to come home." home was not safe for them. There are many reasons way home may not be safe. There may be abuse going one there maybe too much work to do and becomes a stress hazzard. For my family over the last couple of years it had been marital tension. I remember talking to one of my pastor friends and he told me when he made the mind set change to think of home as a sanctuary it became so. I didn't really understand what he meant.

In gen 24 we have the story of Abrahams servant going to find a wife for Isaac. It really is an amazing story of prayer and answers to prayer and I recomend that you read it. But the part that struck me was they very end of the story. The servant returns with Rebecca and Isaac sees them approaching from the field he is working. Rebecca gets off of her camel and veils her face. Isaac then takes her into his mothers tent and the partake in their new marriage. Then scripture says that Isaac took comfort in Rebecca because of his mothers death.

Rebecca was a safe place for isaacs grieving heart. He reached out to his new wife and trusted her finding consolation for his pain. What I discovered in my own marriage was if I actually reached out to my wife then home was a sanctuary. I had become so self dependent that I had closed muself off to the one who wanted to care for me the most. When I opened up to the care that she wanted to give me and became honest about my need my home has sense become a sanctuary. It didn't happen over night for me I and am still learning to trust and ask for help when I think I should be able to do it all on my own. But there is a remarkable difference in the safety in our home every time I do.

My encouragemnt to you today is not to live life all on your own find others you can depend on and take the risk of reaching out to them you might just find out that home can be a safer place after all. And if the people at home really aren't safe or there is no one else at home. Find a community that is, because as scripture says it's not good for man to be alone. Believe or not I would suggest looking at church or even better a small group.

And here is a shout out to my own band of brothers, Greg, Stephen, and Les with out brothers we would perish!