Thursday, October 27, 2005

• The Voice of a Wife

  Wives have great influence over their husbands to do them either harm or to bless their lives by encouraging them to do good. A godly wife can either encourage her husband towards godliness or lend her hand to lead him straight into the portals of hell.

  Eve is our first example of a wife who did her husband, and all who followed, great harm.

  Gen 3:17 - Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

  Eve had a great opportunity to bless her husband by encouraging him to obey God. Instead, by listening to the voice of the enemy, she brought the Lord's discipline upon her husband and herself.

  Jezebel is another example in Scripture where we see a wife who's influence on her husband was used for destruction rather than good. A perfect opportunity was presented  in which she could do good towards her husband and encourage him towards godliness. Instead, under the pretence of comforting her husband, she flames his corruptions and feeds his pride and passion and encourages him to join her in killing  Naboth. Scripture says...

  1 Kings 21:25.. There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife.

  In the New Testament we have the ungodly example of Sapphira, who instead of encouraging her husband to do what was right before the Lord, followed him in his deception. The Lord's discipline cost both their life. Things may have gone differently if this wife would have not stood with her husband in his sin but encouraged him to do what was right.

  Acts 5:2... With his wife's full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostle's feet.

  Proverbs gives us the opposite example of a God fearing wife.

  Prov 31:12 -  She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.
  

  How can our voice and our actions influence our husband's towards godly lives? By obeying God's commands! This is the greatest love we can show our husbands. Our example will lead... and our voice will give clarity of our commitment to their good.

  I Jn 5:2 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.
  

  Truly loving our husband doesn't  mean following them into sin. We show our love to our husband's by obeying God's commands.

  I pray our husband's hear the voice of a wife that only does them good and not evil all the days of their lives.  Help us, Lord!

   

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