THE GODLY WIFE: 100% Guilty

Just the other day, my husband got home from work and we were eating supper and he looks at me with tears in his eyes and says..." I realized that I haven't been as good of a husband lately that I should be...and I'm going to try harder to be better". 

I love moments like these because they help me realize just how blessed I am to have a Godly husband who "wants" to be all that God is calling him to be.  I also love moments like these because they remind me that God is Faithful. Things have not always been easy in our marriage and things got pretty bad early in our marriage and I really didn't know if we were going to make it...(that's a story I may share sometime) but In the darkest of dark, as I lay face down before God begging Him to help save our marriage and help my husband become a better man...God told me to Trust Him and that my husband WOULD become a better man in the future if I would just hold on to faith. 
 
I don't share this to make it sound like my husband was so terrible but I share this because : If We will PRAY for our Husbands to Love Jesus More than anything...God is Faithful.  I am SO blessed to be married to this man because he is a better man now than the dream of the man I had when I married him. He has already exceeded my expectations and I am blessed to call him mine.

With all that being said... it's wonderful that my husband wants to improve the kind of man he is in our marriage...it poses the question..what do I need to improve as the godly wife God is calling me to be?  

This answer was pretty simple because the Holy Spirit has been convicting me alot recently about an underlying layer of selfishness I have had with my husband. Believe me, I am trying HARD to keep myself in check with this, It is so easy to focus on the things that I need done and when I need them done, that I can quickly overlook how exhausted and physically spent my husband is after a long hard day of work. It's going the extra mile to make his evening more relaxed when he gets home, to serve him better and allow God to use me to encourage and love on my husband. 

Marriage is not 50/50 it's 100/100. If either one of us is not giving 100% all of the time...then our marriage will suffer. maybe a little, maybe a lot but regardless...it's true.  Is it hard to give 100% all of the time? ABSOLUTELY. But, is it impossible? I believe with God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. God wants us to give 100% so I fully believe that we CAN achieve this humongous goal if we FIX our eyes on Jesus first. 

I am not at 100% YET...but  know that I am determined to aim for it! I hope you will join in the journey.  

* Some of you may be thinking " But I don't have a Godly husband or one that wants to be better, how can I give 100%?"  This is a good question and the answer is this: You can only control your 100%...his 100% is up to him, and sometimes that means that you will be giving 100% for a long time before he gets on board but you don't answer to God for his 100%, you only answer for yours. So do it with everything you have, hold nothing back, and you will never have regrets that you could've done it better. 
    And the Most Important thing to remember is this: PRAY PRAY PRAY for your husband. God is a God of miracles. God is the ONLY one who can change him into the man He's created him to be... so give your husband to God. He loves him more than you do anyways. Be strong friend. You can do this! -darby