The vanity of home in Singapore is that it has become one the most valuable thing in our lives. We spend most of our lives in Singapore building houses. We spend more time serving our house loans than God himself. And where or when in that process do we allow God to step in?
In turn, we become restricted by the system that we are brought up in. We have been conditioned to think of our future in terms of the property we stay in. We know our houses better than we know God and His Word, sometimes better than we know ourselves. We take time to design our houses and furnish it with the most beautiful objects and furniture, but we forget to design our lives around His purpose for us. Our houses look perfect, but our lives are just a shade.
And even when we get into a wonderfully luxurious and comfortable home, we never really feel comfortable because it seems to have separated us from the rest of the people. We say "everyone needs our own space". And we never feel fulfilled. We become a God ourselves. A God of space. A God of luxury. A God of that perfect home.
The "home" is broken today. Divorce rates are rising, birth rates dropping, families are spending less and less time together because people are trying to earn not just their keep but their houses. Our children and youths spend so much time outside, if not on their computers. Dinners are rarely eaten together as an entire family. Our personal servants take care of our home, knowing it better than ourselves. And God is conspicuously missing. He has been relegated to watching in on our homes from the outside.
No matter how "open" a concept we have employed in our house to create space in this suffocating place we call Singapore. It was made for visitors, for friends, for parties, for people. We forget about God’s great expanse of the heavens. We forget that our space on earth is just a temporary constraint.. We forgot that in building our houses and our lives, God has not yet been invited in. And even if He has been invited in, the house is simply worth too much to let him change it. It has become our symbols of who we are.
Psalm 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
In building a country, in building a church, in building that fancy kampung next door, in building our houses. We are no tower of Babel. But we are no home of the bible either. We forgot Him.
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