Main Scriptures: 1Peter 3:7-9
More Scriptures: Ephesians 1:18, John 14:26, John 16:13
Before I engage you with some prodding questions about your understanding of your wife, I would like to establish this truth from the word of God. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding (Proverbs 3:13). As the shepherd and leader of your sheep, you cannot deal with your sheep better than the level of understanding you have about them. I want to ask you these few questions and hope that they will trigger in your heart a deep sense of urgency to want to know your wife better, with the ultimate aim of treating her with honour and dignity. Do you really know your wife? Do you understand her make up as a woman? Do you know how she functions at every phase of her life? A lot of the time, the problem you are having with your wife is rooted in your ignorance-lack of knowledge of her personality as created by God. For instance, the wife, no matter her level of education or beauty or the lack of it, will be unhappy if her husband cheats on her. And a husband who engages in it lacks understanding.
Sometimes, it is not as if the devil is stronger than you. It is for the fact that you don’t know any better about yourself and your wife. God has designed your wife with certain characteristics unique to a woman. Looking at how God created you and your wife, you would understand that your wife is different. God created you out of a raw material-dust. There was not a man to till the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed (Genesis 2:5-8). But when God wanted to create the woman, it was different. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man (Genesis 2:21-23). Your wife is made from a finished product, while you are made from raw dust. This is why the Scripture commands you to deal with your wife according to knowledge and not beating her up or doing acts that would hurt her life (1Pet.3:7). It is possible to stay with your wife all the days of your life and never for once cheat on her, argue with her or even physically assault her. But how do I understand my wife?
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, please, grant me access into Your plans for my wife.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus and by the blood of Jesus Christ, destroy the root of ignorance in my life.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, teach me the things I must know about Your gift to me, my wife.
FAITH CONFESSION
I give myself to learning about my wife from the WORD OF GOD and I do all those things that please her because that is what makes me the good and godly husband in Jesus Name. Amen.
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