What Should I Do? Pt. 1

Have you ever taken a look at your marriage and wondered what you should be doing for it? After all, it is a living thing that needs to be fed, nurtured and sustained. Like a plant...

Although I'm not really good with plants and they usually die in my house so maybe I shouldn't use that example.

Anyway...

Everything that we as Insane Wives need to know for our marriage as well as our lives in general has already been laid our in a handbook by the Creator of All. THE BIBLE! After all, it does lead and guide us into all truth. As since we are trying to have the best marriage that we can have, truth it is!

Our next few conversations will be center around 1 Peter 3:1-6, but we're going to go at it backwards, starting with verse 6. 

"For instance, Sarah obeyed her husband, Abraham,

and called him her master.

You are her daughters when you do what is right

without fear of what your husbands might do."

Now, I don't know about you, but I've called my husband quite a few names before, aloud as well as in my head. Master was not one of them. But have you ever read or heard the story of Sarah and Abraham? Reckless endangerment is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about the two of them. They had a marriage that would have made thee best Lifetime movie ever! He gave her away to a king, she couldn't have children, illegitimate children, crazy baby mamas, moving around from place to place, following a God that no one could see. Sarah may have thought that her husband was a first class lunatic. But she never let it show. 

She had faith.

The scripture uses Sarah as an example of the epitome of wifehood because that is what she was. She supported her husband, followed her husband and believed in her husband... NO MATTER WHAT. Yes, I'm sure she had opinions and thoughts of her own. I'm sure she had words for him and an attitude on many, many occasions. I'm sure there were days when she woke up wondering what crazy thing her husband would get her into, or what ridiculous words would come out of his mouth. But if she ever said anything, the Bible doesn't talk about it. 

I don't know about you, but sometimes this man of mine comes up with some things that make me consider getting him committed. He's human, and he's a man. Their minds work in a totally different way than ours do. Our responsibility as wives is to serve our husbands the way God tells us to. We should reverence and respect them in the same way we do our God, who is indeed Our Master. He gave us the example, and its up to us to follow it. 

So no matter what our husbands do or say, where they go and who they go with, we should remain the same. That's how we'll get their hearts, by keeping ours turned toward The Master.