Praise for Hardworking Husbands Who Provide for Their Homes
Greetings sisters!
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. (Psalm 100)
If we read and obey such scriptures, even when we go through trials, we are lifted up and strengthened. Amen.
Today I want to encourage you sisters who are married (doesn't matter if he's a believer or unbeliever) to praise your husband if he is a hard worker, providing for his family.
Brother Jim suggested this letter to you because we are constantly coming across professed believing men who are lazy and not working to provide. Most are claiming some sort of injury and are receiving disability and oftentimes their wives are working to pay the bills. No, the wives aren't biblical but the point is, the man is living off the government and a woman. It's shameful. We expect that from the world but not those who claim Christ. God's Word says....
So this is an encouragement for sisters to thank their husbands for providing for their homes and in doing so (encouraging and thanking them) it will show them your respect. Yes, it is his reasonable service, just like you keeping the home is yours, but it is nice to acknowledge the responsibility that they are providing for you. If you work alongside your husband in business, you can still acknowledge this as ultimately he is responsible for providing and you should be double thankful that he's right there with you and not leaving to go away for work every day.
Let me be clear about this....I'm not saying that a husband who has worked hard all his life and has retired is not a good husband, as long as he is providing in an honest way, he is providing as God's Word instructs. Also, a good provider doesn't have to have a high paying job, it could be your husband is a janitor (what the world esteems as low) but he makes enough money for you to live a simple life or it might be that he doesn't have a physical job but one that uses his brain. This is respectful also. Any man that provides for his house without mooching off the government and taking what is not rightfully his, is a good thing. If you have a husband that doesn't provide in an honest way, you will simply need to continue your walk as a godly woman and pray that God convict him.
We travel all over the country and are in many different grocery stores getting supplies and while in there we always notice workers that have disabilities. Some are very severe and they could easily receive disability pay but they are out working. Here are a few examples of disabled people we have seen working:
* A man in a wheelchair working at a cash register
* A woman with her eyes pointing in two different directions and it was clear she had to work hard at thinking, working in a grocery store.
* A little elderly man who looked about 90 yrs old and didn't weigh much more than that, mopping floors.
* A man that had a shoulder frozen upward by his ear and the arm under it didn't work, it just swung back and forth. His head was permanently turned sideways and his mouth only worked on one side. He was managing the self checkout registers.
* A man that had one eye pointing upward with a hook hand, changing tires.
* Years ago we knew of blind people in the town where we lived, they would walk a mile to work and bag hardware at a factory.
Here's an extreme example:
* There's a famous mathematician (even though he was worldly and an atheist) that was totally crippled only having movement in his cheek. They invented a sensory machine that he could use to type, writing books and teaching others.
There are many more examples we could share.
These are hard working people of the world, how much more should a follower of Christ be working hard for his family AND to save something aside for a potential brother or sister in Christ that needs help.
This also goes for sisters to not be lazy keepers at home. It could be easy for a woman to sit around a lot in the home and exaggerate to her husband how hard she worked, when she didn't. That's sinful.
Read Proverbs 31 and see how hard she worked taking care of her family and household. If you are alone or you and your husband have a small home that doesn't take much time to maintain then there's more time for you to have a garden (yes you can grow gardens on patios if you don't have a yard), work hard at saving money on sales and discounts, making things from scratch instead of buying them, having a small home internet business making and selling products etc. There are endless opportunities for women to be working hard as a keeper at home.
This culture has bred laziness and the young people growing up today are smarter at using the system than they are for using their brain to find a way to provide for themselves and those they are responsible for. Let us sisters do our part in not becoming lazy in this self indulgent world of everything being brought to or done for us, and be an example for that next generation.
Praise your husband for providing and give thanks to God if you have one that does.
Love in Christ,
Sister Deb
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