Notes from the Bookshelf: The Bible

This semester in Mom Time, we have been focusing on pleasing God through serving our community, being loving mothers, and making sure that we, ourselves, are calm and collected.  But who helped in getting us to motherhood? That’s right, our husbands.  And we certainly need God securely bonded in the unity of our marriage. 

Erika used probably the best study guide we could work from this week with none other than, the Bible.  She targeted six major areas of marriage that need constant reevaluation and attention: Holiness, Communication, Submission, Intimacy, Finances, and Respect.  Each respective area had at least one bible verse that shed wisdom on how a godly wife (and husband) should behave and live according to God’s word. 

Erika challenged us to take at least one area that we need to work on in our own marriage and make it a goal to fix or change our behavior or role as wife.  She then provided us with blank cards, had us write a short note to ourselves about where our marriage needs help and promised to mail the cards out to us in a few months.  Talk about keeping tabs on yourself!

Before children and before homes and before this whole new life began, we started out as just husband and wife.  As godly wives, our husbands deserves our patience, our listening ear, our reassurance, our respect in a submissive manner, and all of our emotional/physical/spiritual self.  And whether as an example for your husband or with him together, we need to treasure our families and our relationship with Christ, not our bank accounts and materials things. If we decide to move in a forward, positive direction, our husbands will follow our lead.

“…and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.” Mark 10:8