Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Daily DevotionalSample

Home-schooled The truest measure of a person's spiritual health is taken in the home. We can be a spiritual superstar at our work, in our community, at school, and even in our church...but it's who we are at home that tells the real story of who we are. Home is where we tend to close the door and surround ourselves with people we aren't compelled to impress. Home is where we feel we can let our guard down and take all the filters off. Home is the place where the real us finally emerges, shedding the skin of who we portray ourselves to be. And quite often, there's a dramatic difference between the two. The Psalmist wrote that he would walk in his house with a perfect (or upright) heart. Can we say the same thing? Is our commitment to the things of God the same at home as it is elsewhere? Do our personal lives reflect the same devotion and obedience as our public lives? Does grace continue to be the overriding principle in what we do and say to others once we've shut the front door? Are we honoring our spouse, children, and parents in the way the Lord call us to? If not, why not make it so? Why don't we determine to burn brightest in our passion for Jesus at home? Whether we're single, married, with or without children...why not invest our best in the place that reveals and defines us most clearly? For when we're right with God at home, we'll be right outside of it. Lord, bring a spiritual revival to our homes. Make us into men and women who honor You there first and foremost. Build families that are solid and burn bright for You, and don't let us ever forget that it's who we are at home that's who we really are. The truest measure of a person's spiritual health is taken in the home. We can be a spiritual superstar at our work, in our community, at school, and even in our church...but it's who we are at home that tells the real story of who we are. Think about it... What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today?