My friend sent me this link to this cool blog the other day and if you sign up, they give you fun little tips to be a better wife everyday in your email box.
I thought this is very appropriate for our upcoming monthly theme of loving, honoring and respecting your husband as the leader of the home.
Some of the tips are cheesey and funny and some are just what I need to do for my man.
Hope you enjoy.
http://www.the-generous-wife.com/
~ Kindra
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Leader: The Gift Only a Wife Can Give
Bryan Chapell, writer of Word magazine notes, "Biblical leadership invloves sacrificing one's self for the sake of another. A biblically guided husband looks past his own right to consider what's right for his spouse. Following Christ's example, such a husband refuses to abdicate the responsibility of leadership for the family, but uses his biblical authority to arrange the family's resources and activities to serve the best interests of his wife and children."
Submission doesn't mean a wife can't offer advice and wise counsel. The Proverbs 31 woman did just that in verse 26, "she opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." It doesn't mean she walks around saying, "Yes, dear. Whatever you say, dear."
But it does mean, when the husband and wife don't agree on a decision, the wife defers to the husband's wishes. "But what if I know I am right?" you might ask. To obey God is the "ultimate right". After all, we're accountable to God for our obedience.
When it comes to submission, we have 3 choices:
~Lovingly submit to our husbands and support them in leadership.
~ Begrudingly submit to our husbands, complete with pouting, sulking, cold shoulders, nonverbal hostility, and a bounty of "I told you so's" if their decisions turn out unfavorably.
~Refusing to submit, thereby winning the battle but chipping away at the foundation of the marriage.
(taken from the book, A Woman's Secret to a Balanced Life)
I agree with the author when she says number 1 is best. In order to have a happy, fulfilled, God centered marriage, we have to submit and not in "I will but I won't like it" way. If we can view, us not submitting as disobedience to God, maybe then we can see it as sin. Let your husband take the reins...and see how God can bless you AND your marriage for it. ~ Kindra
Submission doesn't mean a wife can't offer advice and wise counsel. The Proverbs 31 woman did just that in verse 26, "she opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." It doesn't mean she walks around saying, "Yes, dear. Whatever you say, dear."
But it does mean, when the husband and wife don't agree on a decision, the wife defers to the husband's wishes. "But what if I know I am right?" you might ask. To obey God is the "ultimate right". After all, we're accountable to God for our obedience.
When it comes to submission, we have 3 choices:
~Lovingly submit to our husbands and support them in leadership.
~ Begrudingly submit to our husbands, complete with pouting, sulking, cold shoulders, nonverbal hostility, and a bounty of "I told you so's" if their decisions turn out unfavorably.
~Refusing to submit, thereby winning the battle but chipping away at the foundation of the marriage.
(taken from the book, A Woman's Secret to a Balanced Life)
I agree with the author when she says number 1 is best. In order to have a happy, fulfilled, God centered marriage, we have to submit and not in "I will but I won't like it" way. If we can view, us not submitting as disobedience to God, maybe then we can see it as sin. Let your husband take the reins...and see how God can bless you AND your marriage for it. ~ Kindra
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Are you Ready?!
That's right, it's our first official post for our new blog! It's so exciting to see some new changes for this coming year. We have our first meeting Wednesday, Sept 2nd.
Our theme for this year is "Becoming a 31 girl." We are going to be focusing on Proverbs 31 and learning how we can become the woman that God wants us to be. Does that mean we are expected to be perfect? Of course not! As Christians, we know that we are not perfect, just forgiven. It does mean that we need to learn to incorporate Christ into every part of our lives. I found this analogy in my devotional that really spoke to me.
In my workroom, I have 2 identical jars. One is three-fourths full of sand. The other contains fist-seized rocks. The jar of sand represents my activities on any given day: to-do lists, shopping, community projects, painting, cleaning. The list is as...endless as, well...grains of sand. The other jar containing the rocks represents what God wants me to do on any given day: pend time with Him, study His Word, and pray.
If I fill the jar with large rocks first, then, amazingly, I can pour all the sand into the same jar and it fits nicely around the spaces and crevices. However, if I begin by filling the jar with sand and then try to squeeze the rocks into the same jar, they won't fit.
Likewise, if I start my day spending time with God (the rocks), everything else (the sand) seems to fall into place. Excerpted from A Woman's Secret to a Balanced Life by: Lysa Terkeurst & Sharon Jaynes.
I love knowing that by taking 30 minutes out of my morning to pray and spend some time with God, the whole rest of the day is going to be okay. Not necessarily good because we all have storms and rough days, but that time spent with God makes it all the more bearable in knowing that I'm not alone.
Will you be a 31 girl with me?
~Tammy Herron, Publicity
Our theme for this year is "Becoming a 31 girl." We are going to be focusing on Proverbs 31 and learning how we can become the woman that God wants us to be. Does that mean we are expected to be perfect? Of course not! As Christians, we know that we are not perfect, just forgiven. It does mean that we need to learn to incorporate Christ into every part of our lives. I found this analogy in my devotional that really spoke to me.
In my workroom, I have 2 identical jars. One is three-fourths full of sand. The other contains fist-seized rocks. The jar of sand represents my activities on any given day: to-do lists, shopping, community projects, painting, cleaning. The list is as...endless as, well...grains of sand. The other jar containing the rocks represents what God wants me to do on any given day: pend time with Him, study His Word, and pray.
If I fill the jar with large rocks first, then, amazingly, I can pour all the sand into the same jar and it fits nicely around the spaces and crevices. However, if I begin by filling the jar with sand and then try to squeeze the rocks into the same jar, they won't fit.
Likewise, if I start my day spending time with God (the rocks), everything else (the sand) seems to fall into place. Excerpted from A Woman's Secret to a Balanced Life by: Lysa Terkeurst & Sharon Jaynes.
I love knowing that by taking 30 minutes out of my morning to pray and spend some time with God, the whole rest of the day is going to be okay. Not necessarily good because we all have storms and rough days, but that time spent with God makes it all the more bearable in knowing that I'm not alone.
Will you be a 31 girl with me?
~Tammy Herron, Publicity
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