What’s the atmosphere like in your home today? Dear mother, you have the power to choose the atmosphere of your home. Yes, you decide what atmosphere you want!
What do you want? Do you want your home to be filled with the presence of God? Filled with joy and happiness? Then you can make it happen.
It all starts with us. First, we choose what we do with our emotions. We choose how we handle our trials. We know that life isn’t perfect. Many things don’t go the way we want them to. Life often hits us whammies we never imagined.
Whatever we face today, we can choose to trust God. He is bigger than any situation we face. We can choose to praise Him in the midst of the storm. We can choose to rejoice in every situation. We can choose to see things in the light of the eternal, instead of the here and now (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).
We can choose to fill our home with God’s presence. We do this by choosing to praise God instead of complaining, moaning, griping, and falling into self-pity. Psalm 22:3 says that God dwells in our praises! That means that when we choose to praise instead of complain, God dwells in us. His presence comes to us and fills our home. The word is “yashab” and even means to “sit down.” He sits down and rests in our praises. Some translations say that He is “enthroned” in our praises.
1 Peter 4:12-14 inspires us to rejoice even in the midst of fiery trials. Not only rejoice, but “exceedingly rejoice.” And when we rejoice instead of grumbling, “the spirit of glory and of God rests upon” us (v. 14). Isn’t that incredible? That sure brings a wonderful atmosphere to our homes.
What rests upon you and your home today? The morbid mud of self-pity, or the glory of God?
Love to you today,
Nancy Campbell