The home is one of the three most important institutions ordained by God for man. The two others include the government and the church. The home remains the most fundamental with its root on the marriage institution.
The word “Home” means a person's dwelling place of origin. A home serves as a base for life. It makes living conducive, since it is an abode of care, protection, provision, training and mutual love.
A home is made up of a family such as man, his wife and children. These three constitute what is called “the nuclear family,” while the constitution of the parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, step-brothers and sisters of the couples, forms the extended family members.
The supposed order that should prevail in any home is such the man is the head and controller, also the breadwinner. He is assisted by his wife, and supported by the children. Originally, God evolved the first perfect home in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve as the first couple ever recorded in the scripture of Genesis 1 and 2.
The man and his wife existed fundamentally as suitable and compatible entities from a common source, then become united as one flesh and living together as one entity, sharing everything jointly without concealing any issue whatsoever from each other.
The root of perfection in marriage is development, love, peace, joy harmony, good understanding and communication.
In perfect Godly home, the woman is not only the part of the man but helpmate fashioned out of the will of God. Both couples are actually detached from one common interest referred to as “one flesh.” The man is expected to plan very well towards marriage, if a perfect home must be achieved. Qualities that must apply in a home include: gentleness, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness and self-control. Domineering attitude should be dropped at this point in time.
The home is said to be perfect only when these fundamental conditions are met among other protruding virtues of life that are bound to elope with time. But, it is unfortunate that most homes on the contemporary world of mankind had in many ways, missed the fundamental objectives of the past and are only struggling on the peripheral to realize the impossible.
No man can be a good leader if his home is not organized; the roles of fathers in the church are quite immense which include the pillars of the church and as well as the family. The fathers own the church, the Christian mothers and the youths which explain that hardly can the women and youths take up a financial task without going back to their roots, that is the father. Such great responsibility was being placed on men by God.
A home is the most sensitive and responsive component of the church and society which had to be taken proper care of and its entities should be trained to be responsible, disciplined and progressively fruitful to the family, church and society at large. It is the nucleus human of the society and habitation to build a good foundation and also nurture it into perfection.
I wish to conclude with the saying that there is no place like home and charity, they say, begins at home.
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