Devotionals

God's Way

by PamFord Davis 
05/28/24
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“I don’t get no respect.”

Was stand-up-comic Rodney Dangerfield victimized by a nagging wife? Maybe he was just ignored?

Ladies, we have much in common with our mates but in many ways we’re as different as night and day.

We’re highly emotional. We can deny it; ignore it or fight it. Better yet, we can shape it into strengths of understanding and respect.

Men, you’re focused and rational. You think things through to form logical conclusions. God is pleased when you link love and wisdom in decision making.

God's way is the way to harmony in the home.

"In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate, not as inferior, but out of respect for the responsibilities entrusted to husbands and their accountability to God, and so partnering with them] so that even if some do not obey the word [of God], they may be won over [to Christ] without discussion by the godly lives of their wives (1 Peter 3:1 AMP)."

God made His way clear.

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless (Ephesians 5:25-27 NASB).”