1 Timothy 3:11 says, "Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things." These are some of the qualities that the Lord desires to develop in your life and mine, as the wife of someone in leadership.
Faithful in all things
The final quality listed in this verse is "faithful in all things". This means to be trustworthy and
reliable. Proverbs
31:11 says, “the heart of her husband safely
trusts her.” And the hearts of
God’s people should be able to do the same.
And why can they trust her? "Because she does him good, and not evil, all the days of her
life."
The people in your local church need to know that you and your husband together want what’s best for them. Part of this is making yourself
available. First, are you available to
your husband to help him when he needs you or is he reluctant to ask anything
of you because of how you’ve responded to his requests in the past? Are you available to the believers? Many times all someone needs is a listening
ear and a friend to pray with.
Is being
available, or allowing your husband to be available, going to be
inconvenient? Yes,it is. But your time and your selves are things that
you can choose to offer up as a sacrifice to the Lord.
If this is the ministry that the Lord has called you to, He will be
faithful to equip you to do it.
Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.
(1 Thessalonians 5:24)
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