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Day 12: 30-Day Husband Encouragement Challenge
"With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love." Eph. 4:2
We tend to say the most hateful things to the ones we are closest to. Perhaps because we expect them to put up with it. Perhaps it's because we see them more than anyone else and we simply can't hide our 'bad' side forever. And we are human. We are going to lash out when we are having a bad day, and unfortunately those closest to us bear the brunt of this.
However, it is our job to minimize this behavior and to apologize when we fail. Sometimes, I find myself thinking about all of my husband's faults. And I find myself thinking about how lucky he is to have someone like me who is easy to get along with and loving and cleans up after herself and...
Whoops, wait a minute! That is such a load of bull. Because just like my hubby, I have a long list of faults. I can be snippy. I can be naggy. I tend to put our kids first in everything I do. I don't take as good of care of myself as I should. I am not as supportive of his ideas as I should and could be.... Now I am reminded of words from Matthew
Matthew Chapter 7:1-5
1 “Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
2 For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
3 Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye?
5 You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
Hmmm...maybe I should spend more time fixing my own problems and less time criticizing my husband over his. How about you?
