What Does the Bible Say About Home Health?
Start with good priorities.
How can you tell what your priorities are?
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:15-16).
In light of Ephesians 5:15-16, ask yourself the following questions:
o How do I spend my time when I am home?
o What do I find myself thinking most about?
o What do I get excited, angry, or depressed about?
o How do I allocate money?
o Whom do I invest my talents in?
o What subjects are easy for me to talk about?
Now consider who are God’s priorities for me?
o God. Spouse. Kids. Family.
o Home-less: Orphans & Widows
o Fellow Christians.
o Coworkers. Neighbors. Strangers.
o Self.
Make Your Home God-Centered
The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).
Make time for daily devotionals—both individually and as a family. Teach, memorize, and live out what Scripture says. Lastly, be sure to spend quality time together; do all things out of love.
Make a Home for Your Marriage
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous (Hebrews 13:4).
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband (Ephesians 5:33).
Make a Home for Your Kids
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4).
Make a Home for Your Family
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever (1 Timothy 5:8).
Make a Hospitable Home
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling (1 Peter 4:8-9)
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality (Romans 12:10,13).
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares (Hebrews 13:2).
Make a Home for the Home-Less
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world (James 1:27).
This includes the unborn, orphans, widows, and prisoners.
Unborn: Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 82:3-4)
Orphans: I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you (John 14:18).
Widows with Family: But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God (1 Timothy 5:4).
Widows without Family: If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows (1 Timothy 5:16).
Prisoners: Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body (Hebrews 13:3).