As a Wife, what is your purpose?

Ephesians 5:20-22 "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Do you thank the Lord for your husband?
Do you submit to your husband as the Bible says we should?

In submitting to our husbands and being thankful for them we need to:
1. Not correct him
2. Not laugh at him
3. Don't accept him, based on what he does.
4. Don't always think and look at what his weakness is.
5. One of the worst things I hear wives doing: DON"T compare him to other husbands!

No we are going to look at each of these things. Now I asked you do you thank the Lord for your husband? Ephesians 5:20 "Giving thanks for all things...." you know you can put in there Giving thanks for your Husband! God wants us to be thankful for all things and that includes our husbands. Let him know how thankful you are for him.

Now submission. Yea, I know you hear it all the time "Wives submit yourselves unto your husband" guess what? I'm a wife too and I know how you feel also. There are times I'm thinking WHAT? But as the wife, as a wife who wants to obey the Bible, as a wife who wants to be Prov 31 lady, I go ahead and submit. Is it easy? NO I want lie to you I'm human, I'm a woman and I'm independent! But Guess what? If my husband ask me to do something or to follow him or to go with him, I will! Who am I married to? My parents? or Him? My work? or Him? something for each of us to consider.

Now We don't need to be correcting our husbands.
Here are a few things we should avoid correcting him on:
             ~when he's telling a story, let him tell it his way. Don't make him look ignorant!
             ~When he's telling a joke. let it go....
             ~His English
             ~The way he works
             ~His appearance
We want him to be his best, but we can, in trying to help him, hurt him. So be careful as a wife how you say things and what you "correct" him on.

Laughing at your husband.
Make sure that when you laugh it's with your husband and not at him. Even though he may not show it, when you laugh at him with others it's hurting his ego. If he's laughing and your laughing with him that's being as one, so to speak.

Wife, don't base your acceptance of the man you married on what he does. Don't try to make him more spiritual, the Lord will do that. Your husband will stand before the Lord, for his responsibilities.

Don't dwell on his weakness. Did you know you when you dwell on the weakness of something or someone, you no longer look at them as you should. Maybe he doesn't pick up his dirty clothes, guess what at some point you didn't either. Maybe he smacks his food, you did also when you were little and who knows you may still do it. Maybe your husband changes channels on the tv more than anyone else you know. Guess what, you don't need to dwell on it. You especially don't need to go to your friends and say you know my husband he does this and this (using negative about him). Now if your going to praise him before others, by all means Do It.

Don't compare him to other men! You know what each man, woman, girl, boy are D-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t!!
None of us have the same looks, same way of working or anything. Just be careful DON"T compare your husband to an  old boyfriend, best friend  husband, your pastor, your SS teacher. He is Your Husband, He is who God made him to be, He can't be changed by you!

Accept your husband for WHO he IS!!

The challenge for this wk is to Praise him more, Thank the Lord for him daily, and most importantly Submit to your husband. Do as he ask, go where he ask, follow him where he goes. Remember to do all this with a good attitude and with the Joy of the Lord.