Heaven Help My Home
Scott Maze
Ephesians 6:1-4
If your home is anything like mine, see if this sounds familiar. You have more expenses than money. Your house isn't anywhere near as clean as you would like it. You're embarrassed by the messiness of your garage. You have not won ''yard of the month'' in a long, long time. There is more arguing than you'd like to admit and it is so easy to be frustrated with annoying habits of your family members. It seems everyone has more of a hair-trigger and nerves are on a raw edge at times. There's more homework than is possible to deal with. You cannot remember the last time your husband and you went on a date together. The daily menial tasks of parenting grind you up. Running kids to practice, ensuring their homework is finished, and worrying if you are messing up their future, you have little time to consider what you are working for. In time, a parent can easily forget what the big picture is you are working for.
In the moments to come I want to help you regain the ''big picture'' of parenting.
Everyone needs this sermon this morning. No matter if you have small children at home or you not. And here's one big reason why: Our culture places a lot of emphasis on understanding your relationship with your parents in order to understand yourself. So much of our ''cultural experts'' trace our relationship with our parents as the reason we do what we do. People think, ''I have to understand my relationship with my mother! I have to understand my relationship with my father!'' At some level, this is true. Plato himself said on the scale of human decencies, honor of parents is second only to honoring God. It makes sense, because next to your relationship with God, it's your relationship with your parents that really has had and will have the biggest impact on yourself and who you are.
Keep your Bibles open to Ephesians 6 if you will. We continue our yearlong study of Ephesians.
Today's Scripture
''Children, ...
Scott Maze
Ephesians 6:1-4
If your home is anything like mine, see if this sounds familiar. You have more expenses than money. Your house isn't anywhere near as clean as you would like it. You're embarrassed by the messiness of your garage. You have not won ''yard of the month'' in a long, long time. There is more arguing than you'd like to admit and it is so easy to be frustrated with annoying habits of your family members. It seems everyone has more of a hair-trigger and nerves are on a raw edge at times. There's more homework than is possible to deal with. You cannot remember the last time your husband and you went on a date together. The daily menial tasks of parenting grind you up. Running kids to practice, ensuring their homework is finished, and worrying if you are messing up their future, you have little time to consider what you are working for. In time, a parent can easily forget what the big picture is you are working for.
In the moments to come I want to help you regain the ''big picture'' of parenting.
Everyone needs this sermon this morning. No matter if you have small children at home or you not. And here's one big reason why: Our culture places a lot of emphasis on understanding your relationship with your parents in order to understand yourself. So much of our ''cultural experts'' trace our relationship with our parents as the reason we do what we do. People think, ''I have to understand my relationship with my mother! I have to understand my relationship with my father!'' At some level, this is true. Plato himself said on the scale of human decencies, honor of parents is second only to honoring God. It makes sense, because next to your relationship with God, it's your relationship with your parents that really has had and will have the biggest impact on yourself and who you are.
Keep your Bibles open to Ephesians 6 if you will. We continue our yearlong study of Ephesians.
Today's Scripture
''Children, ...
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