What Happens When You Come Through the Door?

 “Then all the people left, each for their own home,

 and David returned home to bless his family.”

I Chronicles 16:43

 

It’s been a long day.

Nothing went as planned.

The customers were not happy, so that meant the boss was not happy either.

The copier ran just long enough to jam.

You cleared it and it jammed again.

The vendor who came twenty minutes late without explanation or apology clipped the fender of your car as he left.

Did I mention it’s been a long day?

But your wife and children were not responsible for the customer, the boss, the copier or the vendor.

Will they face your fury?

Will they pay the price of someone else’s poor behavior toward you?

David returned home to bless his family according to I Chronicles 16:43

This followed the triumphant return of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.

He was not having a bad day.

He had had a glorious day.

We have spent several days looking at how we develop self-control in our lives.

David returned home to bless his family after a wonderful day.

Do you return home to bless your family only after a ‘successful’ day?

What happens on the days described above?

            We all have them.

The man who has grown in the area of self-control and does not let his emotions empower him will be the man who can come through the door at the end of the day and regardless of the previous 8 or 10 hours away is still able to bless his family.

He recognizes the blessing they are to him and he sows blessing and peace into the lives of his wife and children.   

Maybe you’re reading this blog early in the day.

Commit to God and to yourself that regardless of what today holds you will come home to bless your family!