Balancing work and home in a hectic life on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors where we seek to provide biblical solutions

to the problems that people face.

Everyone knows what it is to be busy.

Everyone knows what it is to feel the pull in different directions of being devoted to your

home and devoted to your work.

Amy, what's going on?

What are people asking about this issue? Like you said,

many people are torn between the call to be present at home, but also needing to be devoted to

their work. So how can we help people understand the relationship between their work and their

home life? Well, I think people do feel

the tension because there is a tension there. And the tension is a biblical tension. If you think about

a passage like 1st Timothy chapter 5, verse 8, it says if anyone does not provide for his relatives,

and especially for members of his household,

he's denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. I think what Paul is saying is that

you don't even have to be saved to know that you need to be caring for your family. You need to be

caring for your wife in financial and physical terms. And so we've got this

really clear biblical passage that says, hey, this is baseline faithfulness you need to be providing

for your family. And so this is going to be a call for men in particular to be working to earning a

living for their home. But then, on the other hand,

you have also in First Timothy, you have a passage like 1st Timothy chapter 3 versus 4 and 5,

and it says that a man, an elder, particularly in this case, a pastor, must manage his own household

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