Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“THE MAKINGS OF A BIBLICAL HOME”

Proverbs 24:3–4 “Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”

Just like a stick-built house, there are building materials, a process, and a finished product when building a home. You must have a foundation, building materials, and hands that do the work. And when it is all finished, you must put a family inside to make it a home.

In the text, wisdom is the engine that builds the home. You can have concrete trucks lined up, a jobsite full of building materials, and the financing all taken care of, but if you do not have wisdom to put all those necessary things together, the home will never be built.

Understanding is what puts the pieces together in the right place. You don’t set rafters on the footers, or shingles on the walls—that would be silly. You must have rafters and you must have shingles, or some sort of roofing material, but you must understand where they go first. You must put the right materials together where they belong.

Knowledge allows all these components to work together so that the most precious process can take place, and that is filling the home with its precious contents. That is our family.

There is nothing like a home that is built well, well thought out, and filled with a family that loves, grows, and finds refuge within its walls. The imagery given here of a physical home is applicable to a Christian home when God’s outline is followed.

Tomorrow’s devotion will deal with the components necessary to build up your home in 2026 in greater detail.