Bible Texts: Mk.9:49-50, Matt.5:14-16, Mk.9:29, Rom.12:21m Am.5:15, Heb.11:1, Heb.11:32-33
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 to your wife and children and on the earth. Your life is designed to add flavour to humanity, beginning with your wife and children. 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.
Now, the questions you should ask yourself as the leader, is this. Are you the salt or you have lost your saltness? Is your life inspiring and motivating your wife and children? Jesus speaking 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 ordains 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. So how do I have salt in myself?
The first thing you must and continue to do is to open your heart to Jesus Christ 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. This means that you and I must overcome unrighteous thoughts and actions with thoughts of good as provided in the word of God. In Rom.12:21, the word of God tells us to overcome evil with good. On a daily basis, 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. You and I must choose to be spiritual.
Thirdly, you must contend for the faith to be salt to your wife and children. The Bible tells us that by faith they overcame….(Heb.11:32-33). You must walk by faith and not by sight. You must trust God and His word to live your life and act according to what God says and not what your sheep says or does. And as you labour in faith, word and prayers to have God’s nature gaining root in your heart to the extent that your life adds value and flavour to your wife and children, you will be blessed of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your wife and children will honour and respect you (Am.5:15).
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, destroy the power of self and arrogance in me.
- Father, in the name of Jesus, let my life so shine before my wife, children and the world and let it bring You glory.
FAITH CONFESSION
I have the life of Christ and His Spirit in me and I am adding value and flavor to my world because that is what makes me a good and godly husband in Jesus name. Amen.
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