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What is Wrong with Our Homes?

Carefully read and pray about this verse: If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth (1 John 1:6).

The following is a quote from the book Calvary Road by Roy Hession, Chapter 6, Revival in the Home.

Now, what is essentially wrong with our homes? When we talk about homes, we mean the relationship that exists between a husband and wife… who are compelled to live together. The first thing that is wrong with our homes is that we are not really open with one another. We live so largely behind drawn blinds. Others do not know us for what we really are, and we do not intend that they should. Even those living in the most intimate relationships with us do not know what goes on inside—our difficulties, battles, failures or what the Lord Jesus has to cleanse us from so frequently. This lack of transparency and openness is always the result of sin.

Sometimes, we hide in the most extraordinary way behind an assumed humoristic manner. We are afraid to be serious because we do not want others to get too close and see us as we really are, and so we keep up a game of bluff. We are not honest with one another, and no one can have fellowship with an unreal person, and so oneness and close fellowship are impossible in the home. This is walking in darkness (see 1 John 1:6-8)—for the darkness is anything that hides.