Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Allow Him To Lead


When you are in step with the world, you are out of step with God.

God's ways are best.  He has proven this to me time and time again.  His Word clearly spells out the wife's and the husband's role.  The wife is a companion, a mother, and a homemaker.  A husband's role is a leader, a provider, and a protector.

The fourth secret in winning your husband's love according to The Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood is to allow him to be the leader. This is a position created by God for him.

In Genesis, God said to Eve,

"He {her husband} shall rule over you..."

and to Adam he said,

"By the sweat of your face you shall obtain your food, until you return to the ground from which you were taken."

Marriage is an institution created by God where the husband leads and the wife follows.  The man is the head, the ship's captain of the family.  The women are his first mate and the heart of the family.

Marriage is a complimentary partnership.  Each has a different role but each  person fills in the circle.  Your husband's God-given role is to lead you and provide for you.  This is God's ideal to aim for.

The more we women take over a man's role, the less masculine he feels and the more masculine we become. 

Many women work for more luxuries {cell phones, cable, eating out, vacations, bigger homes, more cars, etc.}.  Luxuries never bring the lasting happiness we think they will.  Only living God's laws bring us lasting happiness.

Happiness and true love are found in warm, affectionate relationships, not in houses or where you live.

Many husbands want their wives to work.  Show him Scripture that describes each spouse's role and then pray.  Truth is powerful and has a certain ring to it that is hard to deny!

Secret #1 ~ Accept him as he is
Secret #2 ~ Admire His Masculinity
Secret #3 ~ Make Him Number One

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So true!
Love it!
God Bless you,
Deborah
Good article!! This has been on my mind a lot lately. Especially when I have friends struggling in their own marriages. I've been married 21 years and the first decade or so was very rocky! Mostly because of my desire to lead!!! Now days, girls are taught, really, to be disdainful of men. Only after listening to Dr Laura and reading her books did I finally "get it" and now our marriage is pretty strong.
Very true. The way so many marriages are today you would never guess that our Heavenly Father desires for husbands to be the head of the home. It creates a sense of order.
As always, thank you SO MUCH Lori for being a mentor and role model. The fact that you're living out life for God has helped me more than I can express.
What a great post! Thank you for sharing and for linking up with us. :)
I recommend Mary Pride's books-The Way Home and its sequel, All the Way Home(home-school.com). I have read other books on this subject but I think these are the best. I enjoy the articles at that web site(Joyce Swann,etc.).

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