Friday March 29, 2024
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor
to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you
of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
The apostle gave husbands a special admonition to be kind and good. And it is needed. We husbands undoubtedly have more sins on our conscience in this respect than our wives.
The Word for today raises a pointed question in the very midst of our domestic and marital life: Do you respect and honor your wife? Or are you one of those who go about complaining, now about the food, now about the housekeeping, now about financial matters, in fact, about nearly everything with which she has anything to do?
Do you give her the money she needs for the household and for clothes for herself? Do you give it to her with a word of good cheer or do you complain of her lack of economy?
I know husbands who, when they are away from home, speak well and in glowing terms of their wives, but who never accord them a word of recognition or encouragement at home.
Do you know that your wife is hungering for even the least evidence of the fact that you are grateful for her love, for all that she sacrifices and does for you and for your home?
I know husbands who are polite and respectful toward their wives among strangers, but at home are neither the one nor the other. There they show her neither respect nor honor, scarcely even any interest.
“That your prayers be not hindered,” says the apostle.
There are many Christian husbands whose prayers are hindered, whose life in God is weakened, yes, suffers extinction because of the fact that they sin against their wives day after day without being willing to listen to the reproof and admonition of the Spirit.
Perhaps this is the leak through which all the grace that you have received continuously flows out of your life.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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