Main Scriptures: Mk.9:50
More Scriptures: Matt.5:16, Mk.9:29, Am.5:15
As the head of your family and the spiritual leader in your home, it is very important for you to understand that you are the salt of the earth and to your wife and children. Your life is designed to add flavor to your sheep. The moment you become the husbandman and leader in your home, you no longer live for yourself again but for the blessings of your wife, children and the world. Your name, your words and your relationships should inspire, motivate and empower your wife and children and the people around you to want to become the best of God. So, the question that you should ask yourself as the leader, is who am I mentoring and whose life is my life inspiring or motivating? In our main text today, Jesus Christ, who is the perfect example of the good and godly husbandman said, “salt is good, but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another” (Mk.9:50). God has ordained your life to inspire your children and wife unto godliness and good works. Your children should see you as the canvass on which to paint the glorious pictures of their lives. Your wife should see you as her mentor.
But how do become the flavour in the lives of my wife and children? Firstly, you must and continue to open your heart to Jesus and let Him fill you with His life through His word. The more you allow His word to have His way inside of you, the more of His life you will contact and consequently your life will be renewed by the washing of the word of God (Rom.12:1-3). Secondly, you must daily confront the force of carnality by the force of spirituality. In Rom.12:21, the word of God tells us that we should overcome evil with good (Rom.12:21). Daily, we are confronted with the choice to either live spiritually or carnally. We are faced with the decisions to either become salt or lose our saltness, do what pleases God and our sheep or disobey Him. Thirdly, you must contend for the faith to be salt to your wife and children (Heb.11:1-3). You must believe God and continue to trust Him for grace to live the life that will add value to your wife and children.
As you labour in faith, in the word and prayers to have the life of Jesus Christ gaining root in your heart, thereby making become a flavour to your wife and children, you will begin to earn the respect and honour you really desire from them (Am.5:15). That is your heritage as the good and godly man, husband and father.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, fill my heart with your life and let it gain root downward.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower to think and act righteously each day.
- Father, in the name of Jesus, let my life add flavour to the lives of my wife and children, bringing glory to Your name.
FAITH CONFESSION
I have the life of Christ and His Spirit in me, and I am adding value and flavor to my wife and children and world because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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