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He needs you to help create peace in your home.
I recently wrote a post on Instagram about my tendency to unleash on my husband as soon as he walks through the door. I have learned that our husbands need us, as wives, to be a safe place for them and for us to make our homes a safe place as well.
Romans 12:18, “If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”
Are there battles that you pick with your spouse that are avoidable? Are there arguments between you and your children that he has to hear as soon as he comes home from work? Do you expect him to bear the weight of your personal frustrations day after day?
Instead of fighting battles, our husbands need us to fight to pursue peace. Most women that I know are inherently empathetic, kind, compassionate, loving and understanding. When we pour our time and efforts into sharing those beautiful, God-given traits with our families, we are bound to create a more peaceful home.
And above all, let us always pray for God to allow peace, godliness and love to reign in our homes.
Colossians 3:12-14: “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Wives, you are so very, very important. You are loved. You are valuable. Make use of the gifts and blessings that God has poured out onto your life and, in the same way, pour them onto your husband. He truly needs you – probably a whole lot more than you may know.
