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The M&M Connection
“Who’s First in your life?”
Circle Two
Your Relationship
with your Wife
The quote from last month’s article, “A businessman’s
ministry in the marketplace will only advance to the extent his marriage
permits,” is a key to all we do as men to build the
Kingdom of God in our
sphere of influence. Who would have thought that your marriage would be
a key element to your ministry and your job?
God showed me that He is very interested in all that is
happening and He knows it takes time. He said, “If your wife needs you,
you must run to her and not worry about me. I will be there when you get
there because I’m already in your marriage and I want to see it succeed.
When you care for your wife and her needs you care for me.” Your
relationship with your wife is far more important then you might
understand.
We need to understand that God has given us our wives as
helpmates and we need to become one in Christ if we are going to live up
to our full potential as a Christian man. A significant key to our walk
with God is our relationship with our wife. We need to become men who
are willing to sacrifice our lives for our wife and create an
environment conducive for holiness to exit in our homes. Why? So our
wives can become a solid helpmate. Just look at the word. It is a mate,
wife, who is there to help you. The question is, in what way?
Helpmate, in ancient Hebrew is, “The revealer of the
enemy.” Your wife has the spiritual capacity to know when the enemy is
attempting to hurt you in your job. If you want to grow in your work and
ministry, her role is positioned to help you do just that. In order for
all this to happen you must spend time developing the necessary holiness
in your home. When you do you will stifle the enemy and build the
Kingdom of God right
where you work and live.
Your wife, on the other hand, will become the one who can
speak into your work in a way no one else can. She is helping you by
protecting you from foolish mistakes that seem reasonable at the time.
On numerous occasions my wife was uncomfortable with some of my hiring
or investment decisions. When I asked her why she thought I shouldn’t do
certain things, her response was not to my liking. She would say, “I
don’t know.” You might have heard something like, “It doesn’t feel right
to me” or “It just doesn’t seem right to me.”
So, I would go forward and, as I look back on her comments,
I soon learned that she had some insight that I didn’t. I later learned
that this is how God often uses our wives. He puts a check in her spirit
and she can’t explain it. Now that is my clue to step back and hold off
until we are in unity. Your wife is important to your work and God wants
you to spend time with her to develop your relationship so you can trust
one another.
That sounds very important to me. How about you?
Be blessed and be a blessing,
Jack
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