Let's Play House

When you’re a child, your life is full of games. You want to play until you’re tired. It could be board games, hide & seek, tag, or “house”.

Playing house means you have a mommy, a daddy, and kids and you act out family scenarios. The “mommy” may pretend to cook or clean and even serve the “daddy” his meal. She will do the laundry for her imaginary kids and tuck them in. Somehow this game has become a part of adult life. We have all become okay with playing house instead of building a home. Playing the role of husband and wife have become more important than actually being a husband or a wife.

But you will eventually get tired of investing everything you have into playing a game and seeing no return. Living with a man doesn’t make you his wife any more than sleeping in a garage makes you a car. We have to stop falling in love with playing the game instead of being called into a marriage. Having children with someone, cooking their meals, and having sex with them are not the equivalent of being married. There is no substitute for marriage, only excuses for not doing it.

Our society has fed us the lie that playing house is the same as being married but what they don’t show us that when you play, someone always has to lose. Marriage is about both people winning together and walking with God. Getting married doesn’t solve all of your problems but neither does playing house. Choosing to make a commitment to each other and to God elevates your relationship from “playing” to being. You have to play when you were made to fulfill the role.

Eve didn’t have to play house with Adam because she was created to be his wife. When you know who you are in Christ you don’t have to play because you can just be you. No pretending, no auditioning, just living the way God called you to. The world wants you to believe that marriage is overrated and unnecessary. Celebrities will show you successful relationships that do things out of order and outside of God’s will, but I ask you: Is playing house more important than building a home?

With All My Love,
Mrs. Truscott