Building a Christlike home

I do not claim to know all things. In fact, I know nothing but I am blessed to know He that knows all things-Christ and it is my prayer that He will be voice in this blog post.

Today is easter Saturday and I have nothing to do so I took time to study scripture and build myself up. Actually, it was necessary because I have been feeling quite overwhelmed by the world these last couple of days so I went to my maker for refuelling.

I have been led to write about building a Godly home. A Godly home. A home with Christ at the center of it all. A home where Christ is celebrated daily. The kind of home, I aspire to build with my king.

What is a home? I remember we used to have a placard in my living room as a kid that read, " With bricks a house is built but love makes a home". I loved that placard though I barely got the full meaning of the words. Love makes a home.

So the next question is, what is love? Once again, I love 1st Corinthians 13. We had that scripture read at our wedding and prior to that, I had spent some time studying it.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [ b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as
for knowledge, it will pass away.

Verse 8 starts with a very powerful statement, love never ends...  It means the attributes of love never ends. Patience, kindness, non arrogance, non rudeness... THEY NEVER END!!

As I was typing this, I just realised how deep that is. It means I always have to be patient with the king, I always have to be kind to him, I don't have to be arrogant ever and vice versa. Wow, every married couple knows there are days you dont even want to see him, let alone be kind to him.

But scripture tells us that "and the two shall be one". It means in being kind to the king, I am generally being kind to myself.
And when I love him and vice versa forever, together we build a Godly home.

Is the standard too high? Naah, the standard is just Christlike and that is the norm for us Christians.

So today, I take a stand, my home is a home for Christ filled with love. What about yours?

5 months down the line

I wonder the answer people expect when they ask "how is married life?"

Married life in me and KO's opinion (yes I am forcing my opinion on him) is pretty simple. It is sharing a bed with that one person who at one point is our worst enemy and at another is your personal person. It is sharing your life with that person who steps on all your toes with stilettos and at the same time knows how to make you smile.

It is getting upset, locking doors, fighting over money, sex, what to have for supper.. It is crying, praying to God and looking at your partner's face and seeing him look at you with concern in his eyes as though he isn't the one who annoyed you to begin with.

Marriage is sharing everyday who will move heaven and earth to make you happy and at the same time annoy you by spilling stew on your cooker and refusing to clean up.

It is making the best of every situation you find yourself in because you have each other

It is having a personal fan club

It is living with that voice in your head outside your head. (Dude, I don't need you to tell me what I am thinking out loud)

Seriously, when the honeymoon phase wore off, and as my hormones fluctuates monthly, there have been days where I have asked myself whether I made a mistake but each day, I run to God and I know there is no way, I could have... It's just that marriage by nature is a lot of work and I am glad to have this annoying, tall, handsome man to share the task with