DO YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT YOUR HUSBAND TO BE A MAN OF GOD? REALLY?

You want your husband to be "the spiritual leader" in your home.  That's what I've heard hundreds and hundreds of women say to me over the years.
I have come to think that what many women REALLY want is a husband who goes to church, has Godly morals, teaches the children what the Bible says, and treats her in a way that shows he is willing to die for her.  She also wants him to have a good job, she wants to live in a nice house, and have enough money to buy stuff she wants to buy when she wants to buy it.  I think this picture is closer to what many wives REALLY want.

There's nothing wrong with this, as long as you aren't expecting your husband to be Paul The Apostle and Donald Trump at the same time.

And speaking of....I don't see the term "spiritual leader of the home" anywhere in the Bible.   I see the CONCEPT, but not the words.   I see a description of a man of God.  I see men whose MAIN concern was to do the will of their Father in heaven.   I see that example in Jesus.

I see Abraham who told Sarah, "God told me to leave our home, our families, and every single familiar thing and go to the Promised Land."
""What?"
"God told me to leave our home and go to the Promised Land."
"Where?"
"The Promised Land."
"Where is the Promised Land."
"I don't know."
"How do we get there?"
"I don't know."
"When will we arrive there?"
"I don't know."
"How will we know when we've gotten there?"
"I don't know." 
"Why can't we just stay here?"
"I don't know."

Do you really want a man of God as a husband? Or do you want a man who goes to church regularly?  They are not always the same thing.

Do you want a man who is fervently, daily seeking the will of God more than the will of woman?  Because that's what a man of God does.  He seeks God.   

He reads God's Word as a roadmap to life... and as a mirror of his spiritual health.. and not just to get his "devotions" done for the day. 
  
Do you want a man who might hear God tell him to give the money you've been saving for a new pool to a ministry for orphans on another continent?
Do you want a man who is willing to spend time in his prayer closet instead of spending time watching TV?
Do you want a man who loves God so fervently that he doesn't allow his family to compromise about morals no matter how silly his standards might appear to your neighbors?
Do you want a man who is diligent about what his children watch on TV and listen to on the radio? Are you willing to allow your children to be different than their friends because your husband doesn't allow some things that other parents allow?
Do you want a man who loves his wife as Christ loves the Church and does whatever he can to keep his home focused on Jesus and what it means to truly FOLLOW Him?

God doesn't call everyone to sell everything and move to Outer Kookamonga to feed orphans. But are you creating the kind of environment in your marriage in which your husband knows that if God told him to do that... he has a wife who would encourage him and follow him even if she was kinda scared? Are you the kind of wife who is so tuned in to hearing God's still small voice that if your husband said something like that, you'd already know in your heart it was God's will?

God's will for most of us is to stay right where we are doing just what we're doing.  Being weird is not the same thing as being holy.
A man of God knows God will never call a man to do something that will harm his family.  But that isn't the same thing as God calling a man to get out of his comfort zone. 

Behind every man of God who is seeking God's will first - is a woman of God doing the same thing.
Do you really, really want your husband to be a man of God?
Then you really, really need to want to be a woman of God whose first concern in life is doing the will of her Father in heaven.
A man of God needs a woman of God at his side.
Are you?
If not... hold the comments about wanting a spiritual leader in the home until you are the spiritual follower you are supposed to be.
It isn't difficult to hear from God.
It simply requires a desire to hear and taking the time to call on the Lord.
"Call to Me and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know."  Jeremiah 33:3
IF you call.
He will answer.
XO,
Mrs. Older.
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