Hi there,

I am so thankful to God and honored to share God’s heart and my experience in creating a Christ-centred home!

White As Snow Home forms the acronym: WASH and that is taken from Isaiah 1:18:

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” 

A Christ centred home isn’t perfect or special because it is as social media presents “aesthetic’; it is in all its imperfections a home where the members of the household strive towards Christ in everything.

The infrastructure, building work, decor and contents are all material things that can pass away. When a family moves home, they still have a home wherever they are or wherever they may be; it is the people that make the house a home.

A Christ centred home is a place where there is the display of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and control (Galatians 5:22-23).

For a moment, I want you to imagine your home no matter what state it is in physically, spiritually or emotionally; Imagine a home with those fruits in full fruition…

The beauty is, this doesn’t have to just be imagined but experienced. We are all on that journey.

The first ever home in Eden was a beautiful place without lack and most importantly, the presence of God and intimacy with God was what kept it flourishing! Adam abd Eve were one flesh and there was a perfect harmony with God and man (Genesis 2)

It wasn’t until Adam and Eve turned away from God in disobedience and ate of the forbidden fruit that is everything contrary to the fruit of the Spirit: the fruit of good and evil. This brought sin and death into their home.

We see that after they fell, they were ashamed to be naked around each other and before God sewing for themselves leaves that were insufficient to cover the inner stain of their sin a contrast to theim being ‘naked and unashamed’ Genesis 2:25

This covering wasn’t one of dignity or modesty but of insecurity, dishonesty, disgrace and shame. Adam also blamed Eve and called her ‘the woman you gave me’ Genesis 3:12 this sounds like disowning her in other words and sounds like a seperation if not legally but in his heart, he did not call her his wife. Not only that, but most importantly and above all, the separation from God and having to live under the law and not under grace till Christ came. We see that after this, there was the very first manslaughter within the first family between Cain and Abel.

Divorce did not only just happen in years or centuries after but the very first divorce took place. Adam and Eve separated and divorced God, by coming into legal contract and agreement with the serpent Satan. I was thinking one day, and The Holy Spirit prompted me to find out what the word ‘drove’ meant in the Genesis 3:24 so He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

The word gāraš גָּרַשׁ taken from Strong’s reference H1644 is a verb meaning:

to drive out, expel, cast out, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, cast up.

That was the state that sin left them in but God showed His plan for redemption and to be one with us through Christ’s sacrifice.

The beauty is that in the very mindset of their sin when they should have died, God in His love made a sacrifice to cover them when He made coats for them (Genesis 3:21). This was a foreshadow of the blood of Jesus washing away our sins, being the spotless lamb to be slain for our sins so that we could be redeemed bought back to Him.

No matter what your state of home is we can take comfort that it can be redeemed and we can be givwn a new start and beginning because ‘in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace’ Ephesians 1:7.

God’s desire is not for us to be separated from Him but to restore Eden which means pleasure עֵדֶן H5731 – ʿēḏen (Strong’s) in our heart and homes.

He knocks on the door of our hearts wanting to come in and make it home. Take the account of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10); Jesus asked to come to his house!Through that one encounter with the Saviour of the world, salvation came to his house.

Zaccheaus had to climb the tree because he was too short and really wanted to see Jesus, little did he know that Jesus would ask to come to his house and he would have the opportunity to have that personal one-to-one encounter with Jesus!

The same goes for us, sometimes in the business of church and serving in church, we don’t get to have that one to one encounter with the Lord but what’s more better than to have an intimate encounter with the Lord in the personal space wherever we call home!

Christ wants us to know that the best place to have intimacy with Him is in our homes, away from the world alone with Him; we do not need to long for Eden because Eden is in our heart, we are His temple and His presence resides within and around us.

This is the foundation of a Christ centred home; Christ in our hearts by faith because He put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). For Him to be the centre of our homes, He must be the centre of our hearts. He knocks on the door of our hearts (Revelations 3:20) and if we let Him in to the door of our hearts, He certainly will be in our homes!

As with Zacchaeus, we can experience the salvation, healing and beauty of Christ in our homes not just once, but on a daily basis.

As with any home Jesus entered in the Bible, he brought companionship, healing to the sick and dying, He brought life, provision, peace, joy and more, you just have to read the accounts!

The first home he entered as a child was where He was born; many prior to this had said they had no room for Mary and Joseph to give birth to the Son of God. Do we have room for Christ in the home of our heart and in our homes?

His name was called Emmanuel meaning God with us. This did not mean that after He ascended, God was no longer with us for we know that John 4:16 shows us that when Jesus ascended to heaven, He told His discples He would not leave them comfortless because He was sending The Comforter, that is His Holy Spirit.

After the day of Pentecost when The Holy Spirit came, (Acts 2:1-13) any one that accepts Jesus as their Lord and Saviour is given The Holy Spirit, not just God with us but God in us!

The Holy Spirit works in us to make us more like Christ. When we allow Him to work in us, the fruit meaning the product of His labour in us is the fruit of the Spirit. His input is like a farmer that prunes and nourishes and waters the seed so that is produces fruit.

The Bible says in Matthew 7:16 ‘by their fruits, you shall know them’, you will be able to know if you have allowed the working of The Holy Spirit in the home of your heart. Are you loving, patient, kind…?

These attributes are His attributes, we bear His DNA, and so we become like Him the more we grow in Him, just as a baby begins to look more like their parents as their features develop from a small seed.

We will know by our fruits also if we have allowed Christ to be the centre of our homes because there will be evidence of that fruit.

When a seed is not planted or just forming roots or even sprouting, you won’t be able to identify it’s fruit until it grows more.

We need to grow deeper and closer to The Holy Spirit by being rooted in the Word and in spending quality time with Him.

I have found that when this is lacking in my daily routine and life, I become irritable, impatient, angry and my home is no longer Christ centred, a place where the peace of The Holy Spirit is evident, I have not spent the time rooted to allow The Holy Spirit to work in me and produce those fruits.

We all have the seed of the fruit of The Holy Spirit once we come to Christ and it is one fruit. They all grow together.

Our hearts as is our homes, are the soil where God wants to grow love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control. He wants our homes to flourish! As with the ground recieving the seed, we must invite Him in.

We must make Him Lord and Landlord, over our hearts and homes, it is impossible to do it without His Spirit. Don’t let anyone fool you that they are able to manifest or somehow build this home without God. Psalms 127:1 NKJV says: A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.

So to end this post, I simply send the invitation that Christ extends to you if you have not already invited Him to be Lord over your heart and home. Let Him into your life through the door of your heart by believing in him. Through constant fellowship with him by His Holy spirit, and in His Word, you will reap the fruits and benefits of a Christ centred Home.

Thankyou for reading this post!

In my next blog, I will be writing about: Settling in and the foundations of a Christ-centred home. Stay tuned…