Main Scriptures: 1Tim.3:1-7
More Scriptures: Hos.4:6, 2Tim.2:15, Ps.139:14
A leader must be…………know what he’s talking about….(1Tim.3:1-3) MSG
One of the attributes you must possess as the good and godly husbandman is knowledge about God, His precepts, instructions, likes and dislikes. It is when you know about the personalities of God, Jesus Christ and the Person of the Holy Spirit that you can act wisely, decently, maturely, and righteously as the godly man, husband and father to your sheep. Most times as the head of the family, you act like a foolish shepherd not because satan, sin and the world is stronger. It is because you are ignorant. When you know about what pleases God and what displeases Him, you cannot be comfortable in doing those things that displease Him. Every time you fall short of His glory, your spirit man convicts you. So, it is with your wife and children. If you have a working knowledge of your sheep, knowing their strengths, weaknesses, personality traits, emotional qualities, you will not struggle to relate with them. Rather, you will deal with them according to knowledge (1Pet.3:7). All the fighting and unhappiness you are having with your wife and children is due to the fact that you don’t know them. Now, read what the Word of God says about the need for you to operate in knowledge. My people perish for lack of knowledge (Hos.4:6).
But why do I need the knowledge of God to lead my wife and children? The Scripture in 2Timothy chapter 2 provides the answer. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2Tim.2:15). If you note the underlined statement in the passage, you will discover that it says rightly dividing the word of truth. The word of God contains the truth about how to relate with your wife and children. The Bible tells you what you should and shouldn’t do. The Scriptures also tells you their personalities. It says they are fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps.139:14). It also tells you what to do when they provoke you and when they make you happy. So, all that you will ever require to function and lead your sheep as the good and godly husbandman is in the Bible. The more you study the word of God for yourself, the more empowered you become to provide purposeful and godly leadership to your sheep.
You must also know that knowledge is renewable the same way you recharge your phone when the battery is low. This is why the Scripture says this about a leader, Apostle Paul. Not that I have now attained or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of…………I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own, but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win …………..(Philippians 3:12-14) AMP. God wants you to be a great leader to your sheep but you have the responsibility to seek for knowledge.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, I ask You to forgive me for over-estimating myself and not learning at Your feet.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, I ask for Your mercy to prevail in my life for acting foolishly to my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, help me to seek the truth from Your word continually and empower me to apply it faithfully.
FAITH CONFESSION
I receive the Spirit of humility and by it I seek the truth from the Word of God and by it I lead my wife and children in the way of the Lord because that is what defines my leadership as the good and godly husband in Jesus Name. Amen.
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