My friend Tammy email the other week and told me that she was doing a bible study called Excellent Wife and was telling me a little bit about it so I went online and read some excerpts on it and thought it would be something that I would like to read. While I was in Greenville I went by LifeWay and picked me up a copy of the book and the study guide and I have began reading it and I am going to try and blog about each chapter or things that really hit me in this book...
The Excellent Wife- by Martha Peace some quotes from the back cover- Not only does it explain what God requires of a Christian wife, but it explains clearly how to obey God's commandments in order to become that wife....Within its pages it is a detailed portrait of a godly wife...Not only is the standard high and holy but Martha demonstrates that by God's grace it is attainable
Chapter 1- Started out telling about her background and as I read her testimony I sat there and thought how there was times in my life I was just like her. We as women we put our kids, work, friends, our self, even church, errands and etc before our husband. Where God's will for every Christian wife is that her most important ministry be to her husband (Genesis 2:18). After her own personal relationship with Jesus. Here are some traits from Proverbs 31: 10-31 what an excellent wife is and she put it as.. As a beautiful flower in hte light of the moring sun reflects the glory of God's creation, an excellent wife reflects God's glory by her attitudes and actions.. Excellent Wife is trusted, kind,fears the Lord, blessed by her children,careful,praised,not afraid,worker w/ hands,wise, generous, good to her husband,of exceptional worth, respectful to her husband.. boy after reading all of those I got a lot of praying and work to do. But what got me is that she said A wife's responsibility is to learn to put her confidence in the faithfulness of God and His word- to do what He says. I can become what He wants me to become if I do what He wants me to do..
The end of chapter 1 talks about sin being the only thing that keeps us from becoming a godly wife. That our sin alot time is wanting to do things our way and not God's way. Sin is also thinking we can get by w/out God's help and that we presume that God will help even when we neglect His truth. But the great thing is that when we trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, he saves us from our sins and we are no longer slaves to sin. John 8:34-36 Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin..If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. So we have help with our struggles is that just not great... God has provided everything that we need.. In John 14:16-17 Jesus told His disciples not to worry because God the Father would send help. So we are w/out excuses cause our loving, merciful and holy God has truly provided everything we need to become a godly wife, to become the excellent wife.
She ask if you are ready to begin then we need to confess to God that we have not been the wife God wants us to be and to pray to ask for his grace to become the excellent wife He wants us to be.
Chapter 2 is about A Wife's Understanding Of God- God's Protective Authority
