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The home is for the people, not the people for the home. In this episode of Bright Harth, we continue

with the fifth installment of a short series entitled A Homemaker's Rules for Life, where we're

working through some foundational principles

in the life of the homemaker. What are we prone to forget in the thick of a busy day,

week, or month? What truth does she need to be tethered to in the gales of motherhood?

Pressures of keeping a home and the business of a productive life lived before the Lord.

For many of you, these won't be brand new ideas.

Most of what we need to hear doesn't fall in that category after all.

Did I snap at my kids because I just didn't know I should have?

Was she disrespectful to her husband because nobody ever told her that she shouldn't be?

Of course not.

We all need to be reminded of these things from time to time.

So the fifth rule goes like this.

The home is for the people, not the people for the home. This turn of phrase is inspired by something the Lord Jesus did in Mark 2, 23 through 36, where we read this. One Sabbath, he was going through

the grain fields, and as they made their way,

his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees were saying to him, look, why are they doing

what is not lawful on the Sabbath? And he said to them, have you never read what David did when he

was in need and was hungry? He and those who were with him? How he entered the house of God in the time of Abbeathar,

the high priest, and ate the bread of the presents, which it is not lawful for any but the priests

to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him. And he said to them, the Sabbath was made

for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath. Again, he entered the synagogue,

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