THE GOOD AND GODLY SERVANT

Bible Texts: Eph.5:25-29, Eph.6:4, Col.3:19, Deut.6:7, 1Tim.3:2,4, Matt.5:14-16, Is.61:9, 2Tim.2:6, 1Cor.13:4-8, 1Tim.5:8

The husbandman is a servant! This may sound strange and uncomfortable for you this morning but it is the truth from God’s word. God wants you to serve and that is why you are a servant. And as the good and godly servant, God wants you to serve your wife and also your children in truth and in spirit.

But how does God want me to serve my wife?

Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church (Eph.5:25-29)

The word of God commands you to serve your wife by loving her the same way Jesus Christ has loved you. This requires you to give her your best, forgive and forget her when she offends you, provide for her, protect her, willing and joyfully support her and give her first place in your life (1Cor.13:4-8).

How does God want me to serve my children?

And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the way and admonition of the Lord (Eph.6:4)

The word of God says fathers and not mothers are responsible to bring up their children in the way of the Lord. God wants you to serve your children by taking responsibility to train, teach and nurture them in the way and admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ. So don’t handover the responsibility of training, mentoring, guiding and nurturing your children to your wife, pastors or teachers.

Serving your wife and children doesn’t make you less as the head of the family, rather it makes you more of Christ. Your life as the good and godly servant helps your wife and children to understand the nature of Jesus Christ, who came to save and to serve mankind. You also become the first person to enjoy the fruits of your service as the man, husband and father (2Tim.2:6).

Hallelujah!

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to love my wife as Christ has loved the church and gave Himself to it.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to train and nurture my children in the ways and admonition of the Lord.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to keep obeying all the laws of the husbandman, diligently and delightfully.

FAITH CONFESSION

I take delight in obeying all the laws of the husbandman and I receive help from God to keep doing all that the law commands me to do because I want to become the good and godly man, husband and father in Jesus name. Amen.

Excerpt from IN TUNE WITH GOD devotional of Friday January 12, 2024

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