HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I pray that you and your family have a wonderful day of food, fellowship, football and fun💞

How Grateful Are You??

Can you have a grateful attitude for 30 straight days?  Join me for the next month as we focus on what's good in our lives.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Take this time to reconnect with your husband.  Focus on those things that you are thankful for in your marriage.  Make the choice to forget about past mistakes and begin to look forward to your future.  The Will of God is always in front of us!

Feelings and Emotions

Feelings and emotions--very powerful forces that if left out of control, will always cause more bad than good.  I guess it's good that we have them.  They separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom.  However, the older I get, the more I realize that feelings and emotions are highly overrated.  They are unreliable and inconsistent.  They can prevent us from seeing the world as it truly is.  They can actually make us see and believe things about ourselves and others that aren't even there or overlook things that are!  When left to their own devices, feelings and emotions can actually cause us to loose our minds and eventually tear our relationships completely apart.

If our marriages are going to be successful, feelings and emotions must be kept in control.  As Christian wives, we must relate to our husbands based on God's Word and the knowledge of who our husbands are.  We MUST know our husbands and this knowledge must be based in truth.  Truth never changes; it is always true.  Feelings and emotions change, therefore they cannot be seen as truth.  God's word is true.  

So, what does God's word say about how we are to relate to our husbands?  Ephesians 5:33, in the amplified version reads...

 However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly]. 

The institute of marriage was created by God and it is the only relationship in the earth that is compared to Christ's relationship with the church!  That says to me that how I relate to my husband should resemble, as close as possible, the way Christ relates to me.  Jesus gave his life for me, so then how can I give my life for my husband?  How can I actualize Ephesians 5:33?  This verse of scripture gives us a checklist.  There are 10 different ways we should be relating to our husbands.  These things should be done regardless of the actions of our husbands and regardless of how we feel.  How do I know that?  Because while we were yet in sin, Christ died for us--you and me and I'm positive He didn't feel like it!!!  The only way that we can ever begin to show our gratitude for what He did for us is to carry out His will here in the earth; in our marriages.

So, how many things on that list have you done today?  this week?  this month?

WE have some work to do ladies!!!

JDC

WELCOME!!!

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

1 Peter 3:1(a)
Likewise, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands;


I love being a wife!  I really do.  You see, being a Godly wife really has nothing to do with who you're married to.  It is a God given role.  The bible gives us very specific instructions on how we are to carry ourselves as married women and how to treat our husbands.  As wives, we must be what God has called us to be and that's paramount.  I know, there are times when it goes against our feelings and emotions, but our feelings and emotions can never get in the way of obeying God's word.  That's the only thing that we will be judged on in the end.

The verses above have a common theme.  In each of them, God uses the words "your own".  Why do you think He had to use those words?  Was there an issue then?  What is He saying to us today?   When I read these verses of scripture, it causes me to question myself--how am I doing with my own?  Am I being the wife that God has called me to be? Am I doing what His word says I should?  Am I doing all of what God would have me to with my own husband?

Women of God, those of us who call Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, I am on a journey!  A journey to become the wife that God has called me to be and I hope that you will join me.  I'm challenging myself and all those who will come along, to take the focus off of our husbands and to examine our own commitment to being a Godly wife.  My desire is to please God in my thoughts, my words and my actions.  I want God's word to reign in my life and in my marriage.  I want to become the "pure in heart" (Matt 5:8).

How am I doing with my "own"?

JDC