Attention Ladies...

With living in a world that opts for easy in/easy outs for marriages, we need to stand guard for our own marriages. Rick and I have been blessed with an awesome marriage in that we fit the mold for God's calling of a husband and wife. We truly are blessed with this gift from God, but we each pray that we never take that for granted. We pray that we always treat our marriage as that precious gift that God has given us. I have been thinking a lot about what we could offer a couple who is having a rough time or who doesn't fit in that calling very easily. (It is a hard one for us to say since we never have lived it.) Reading today in the Psalms (my fave), I came across Psalm 45:1-7, which reads:

Beautiful words stir my heart.
I will recite a lovely poem about the king,
For my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet.
You are the most handsome of all.
Gracious words stream from your lips.
God himself has blessed you forever.
Put on your sword, O mighty warrior!
You are so glorious, so majestic!
In your majesty, ride out to victory,
defending truth, humility, and justice.
Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds!
Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies' hearts.
The nations fall beneath your feet.
Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever.
You rule with a scep0ter of justice.
You love justice and hate evil.
Therefore God, your God has anointed you,
pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.

Reading this made me think of how we, as wives, can pray for our husbands. It doesn't matter how easily we fit our calling as a wife, we can always pray and we should always pray. Pray for him to be all the things God has called him to be. Pray for his heart to be filled with the truth, to have humility, and fight for what is right. Pray for yourself too that you will always see him how God sees him- strong, powerful, handsome defender, and a joy to you. When you pray for him how can you not love him even more, draw closer to him, and thus building a stronger relationship between the two of you. Our husbands are a precious gift from God and if we always see him and love him as such, opting out would never even cross our minds. I am not saying that this will make everything easy (it won't for some) or that our husbands won't ever disappoint (they are human and not our one true unfailing God), but pouring your love out and watering your marriage (with God's help), it will never fail (reread 1 Corinthians 13). So lets pray, pray, pray!

Love Steph