"You have shown me the path of life."

Blessed

Time for another word of encouragement for my husband!

He is so sweet he actually left me a comment on my last post.

I want to share a scripture first!

"Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Chrit does the church- for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery- but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, AND THE WIFE MUST RESPECT HER HUSBAND." Ephesians 5:25-33

Do you see all that God has commanded of the husband. In that whole paragraph he addresses the husband and then in one short sentence asks of us wives only to respect our husband. Why not love our husband? We as women need love but men need respect. 

Believe me this is the hardest thing for me and I struggle everyday! Being respectful can sometimes be so hard especially when the two of you are so completely different. My husband and I are like night and day!!! If I hate it chances are he loves it! We view things so completely different and often times argue over such little things, thus making me come off as disrespectful! Oh, Lord help me to be more respectful towards my husband, give me a gentle and quiet spirit when I disagree, help me to show him the respect he so deserves.

It is so easy to forget that what love is to me is not love to him. We as emotional women think we need to show him how much we love him. And then we show them the way we would want to receive love. All they want is our respect, if we love them we would show it by our respect! Boy, do I ever fail in this everyday.   Respect and submission do not mean being a doormat but rather coming under my husbands leadership and authority like God's Word says. Yes, we would never intentional disobey God, so why do we intentional disobey our husbands? Some many times I hear women say how wrong and rough we have it to be submissive and respectful. But I happen to think the husbands have it so much rougher. To Love their wives as Christ loved the church. Reread the above scripture. We all will have to give our own account before God one day. Maybe my husband doesn't always love me like Christ loved the church, but that is no reason for ME to sin and be disrepectful. 

My husband and I only through God mercy and grace have come through many trial, and through it He has grown us and taught us how to have an amazing Marriage. But it wasn't until we truely began to rely on God's Word alone for direction that we began to see the change. God's Word is a blueprint or a road map. It covers every area of our lives, EVERY AREA! There is every answer you will ever need in His Word!

There are so many hurting marriages out there. Even well intended Christian counselors and Pastors are giving advice contrary to God's Word and it breaks my heart. Divorce and seperation are never a solution (Unless there is abuse involved). God is bigger than every circumstance. There is not one thing you are going through that He doesn't already know about. He can mend it, He can Heal it, He can make it better than new! Don't give up hope!  

Now that I got that off of my chest, I do not know where that came from, other than I felt I had to write it. I hope it has blessed someone, and if it did please leave me a comment!

Ok, Now for my words of encouragement!

        "If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."  1 Timothy 5:8

I am so very grateful for all the hard work my husband does. I just finished planting my garden. Out in the hot sun! It was hard work!!!! My husband does this everday. (Not gardening, but working out in the sun) He does it without complaining, (Except in the summer..LOL..It get up to 110 out here) but he does it without out fail. I praise him for his hard work. I thank him that he is not lazy! He runs his own business and could very well choose to stay home if he wished, but when there is work to be done he is there, and might I add that what he does he does with excellence! 

Even when it slows down he will find something to do. We have never lacked anything and I praise God for giving me such a wonderful dilligent man of God! He even started an ebay store on the side which has been a huge increase to our finances. But without his dillegence God would not have allowed all the success that he has. It is a slow and downhill season where we live, but God is faithful and has given my husband wisdom when it comes to work. 

Thank you, Babe, for all your hard work, people ask me all the time how you do it, and I tell them it is your dillegence and the Lord's Blessing over you! You are excellent at what you do!!

Untitled Comment

4:22 PM, Apr. 19, 2008 .. Posted by MayTheyBeMightyMen

I love your Wonderful Husband posts! They encourage me, remind me, inspire me, and I could go on. You obviously have something really special going on (even if you are like night and day). Thanks for sharing it with us!

And, I think he SHOULD comment. ;')

Mother's Day GiveAway!

10:02 PM, May. 2, 2008 .. Posted by SchoolinRhome

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