Talk Is Cheap

Main Scriptures: Ecc.5:7

More Scriptures: Pro.10:4, 1Tim.5:8, Eph.6:4

Talk is cheap, like day dreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead (Pro.5:7) NLT

Do you realize that it requires diligence and commitment for you to function maximally as a good and godly husband? The truth is that being a good shepherd to your flock is hard work. It is not cheap talk. It is a call to assuming greater responsibility. It is a call to greater commitments. It is a call to a life of sacrifice and inconvenience. In fact, there is no future for a lazy husband. This is why today’s Scripture is very important for you to meditate on. For you to be called the head of the family, requires much more than the testosterone between your legs or the size of your body or the fluency of your language. It is a call unto higher life.

Now, these are some of the covenant demands of your office and you have to examine yourself if you are walking in them. Husbands love your wife as Christ has loved the Church and gave Himself (Eph.5:25). It is not cheap talk for the husband to love his wife as captured in 1Cor.13:4-8. Fathers nurture thy children in the way and admonition of the Lord (Eph.6:4). It takes the grace of God for any husband to balance his busy schedule with nurturing his children in the way and admonition of the Lord-helping them to love the Lord with the whole of their heart, might and strength. You require enormous courage just like Joshua had in Jos.24:15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Jos.24:15). Look at this commitment again. The man who can’t provide for his household is worse than an unbeliever (1Tim.5:8). It is your singular responsibility to provide for your family and not your wife, parents or relations. You have to soil your minds and hands and your convenience to earn a living and serve your wife and children with the fruits. Your wife is not the shepherd of the family fold. Stand up to your responsibilities and despise christianity of convenience and relativity. So, the question is, have you lived up to the demands above? Can you say you are the provider in your family fold? Can you sincerely confirm that you are indeed a true shepherd to your sheep? Please answer!

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

·         Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to live up to the demands of my office as the husbandman.

·         Father, in the Name of Jesus, make me a worthy example of a good and godly husband to my flock and other husbands.

·         Father, in the Name of Jesus, prosper my headship and make me a successful husband.

FAITH CONFESSION

I work diligently to fulfill the demands of my headship to my wife and children because that is what makes me a good and godly husband in Jesus Name. Amen.

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