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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 5:
Love Your Husbands

 


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HOW can a woman fulfil the Scriptural exhortation to love her husband? True love will always find a very practical way of expressing itself. It always cares for the object of its affections, and a wife, if she loves her husband, will care for him. She will care for his everyday wants and she will care for his spiritual requirements. By her judicious management of the home or the reverse she can fortify him to work for her and for his God, or she can make his lot well-nigh unbearable. A selfish wife is a curse. Let us not be selfish. Let us sometimes place ourselves, in imagination, in our husband's place. We know what we would like. We would like to come home to a clean bright hearth and a clean bright face and to be greeted with fair bright words. Small things cannot be performed without pains and attention, and the wife who succeeds in them can rejoice in a happy well-managed household, whereas the wife who neglects them will have an unhappy muddled household. Therefore if we are tempted to meet our husbands with a cross face or a scolding tongue or an untidy appearance, let us ask ourselves should I like this if I were in his place?

If we are judicious and kind we shall find him ready to sympathise and help us bear our woes. If we are not judicious we may estrange him from us. For, after all, he is only human. There is one rock ahead which a young wife should avoid. Let her never make a third person a confidant instead of her husband. Should this advice be neglected any breach that may occur will grow wider and wider instead of closing. It is not wise to speak of a husband's shortcomings to others. That also will tend to widen any breach should it occur.

To turn to the more spiritual side of the subject. Love will cause a wife to care for her husband's spiritual needs. Love would never say, "I enjoy your companionship so much that I cannot spare you from my side to attend the meetings." Where both husband and wife cannot attend the meetings, true love would rather say, let us take turns, for if both stay home how shall we grow in the truth and be strengthened to resist the flesh! Love will prevent a wife absorbing her husband's time so that he cannot study the word and serve the truth in other ways. Love will make her frugal and self-denying that her husband's hands may be stretched forth to the needy and other services of the truth. - C.H.J.

 

 


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