Communication is the most important factor in meeting the needs of both husband and wife. It is important that each make known their needs one to another. A lack of communication can leave a huge whole in a relationship that can only be healed by personal touch and handling. Friendship is the heartbeat of every relationship, without it communication is a constant bearer in a marriage. Maintaining your husband comes through making sure that you are making every effort to love your husband the way that the Church should love Christ. It is work and effort to have and keep a happy husband. To do this it is important to know that his needs must be meet.
A wife is responsible for both the physical and emotional needs of her husband. She bears great influence on him in many ways and if he is not a strong Christian the wife can also turn her husband’s heart away from the Lord. The O.T. holds many warnings to men who choose ungodly women.
Marriages are like ships on the ocean, if they are not steered in the right direction, they move in the direction that the wind carries them. Not maintained, that marriage will drift into a ocean so large that it will seem impossible to ever get back on course. Many times couples will use a drifting marriage as an excuse to leave instead of working to correct the problems. With this said, the KEY word in maintaining your husband is WORK….and are you willing?
You must work at your attitude in how you speak to him. You must work at your time in how you are spending it being sure that you are making time for him from all your busy work, church work, children, friends, shopping; honoring what he ask of you. If he tells you to cut back on your spending...are you cutting back?
If you know of a certain thing that you are doing that is disrespecting him, are you honoring him by not doing it? Do you have the attitude of Christ when he is being unfair and selfish? How are you responding? Are you meeting his needs? Those are very important questions in maintaining him.
Are you spending time every day in prayer for him; that God would use your life’s example and help you to live the way you are commanded in order to reach him either for salvation, or to encourage him to be the kind of husband that you want him to be by how you act and respond to him?
After you have done everything that you know to do...keep doing them...don’t give up….don’t you dare give up….because, you may not be able to see it with your earthly eyes, but I can promise you on the authority of God’s Word that God is behind the scenes working on him at all times….you must take on the role of the postage stamp and stick to him, the Lord and your promise... and never give up!
Anything worth having is worth the work....
Loving you today,
Bren
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