Continuing with the study previous to this one, detailing the quiet spirit of a Godly woman, Peter then moves on to instruct the man who is married:
1 Peter 3:7 “Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.“
If you are blessed to be married to a woman who has a quiet and gentle spirit and prays for you when you are not correct in your behavior, Peter reminds you that are not excused from having bad behavior.
To “dwell with you wife with understanding” means that you are aware that when you are harsh or abrasive with your wife or children, that you need to change that behavior and apologize quickly. It is completely inexcusable for any man who claims to call Jesus his Lord and Savior to be harsh with his wife or children.
Then Peter reminds the man of the house that he is “To give honor to the wife as the weaker vessel…”
To honor someone is to place them first in your life. To consider their feelings before your own. To place a person at the forefront of your mind and heart and to make them the object of your affection. To honor the Lord in our life is to do these things. No less important is that we give this same kind of honor to our wife, second only to the Lord.
A wife needs to feel that she is first in your life, second only the Lord. She needs to feel that she is the object of your affection and that she has your time, your attention and your love. A man needs to tell his wife often how important she is to him and that he appreciates who she is and what she does for him and the family.
By doing these things, he sets the pattern for love in the family. As he takes this leadership role in loving his wife properly, the Lord has made a woman in such a way that she will respond to this kind of loving leadership and give back to you everything that you need as a man. Respect, love and admiration. You will feel like the most important man in the world if you will just love your wife and make her feel like she if first in your life.
Then Peter finishes this little mini study for men by informing us that should we be unwilling to give to our wife love, honor, respect, our time, and our heart, that we can expect that the Lord is not going to listen to us when we come to Him with our requests for His help in prayer.
“Rob, I hear your prayer, but Rob you have not been treating your wife correctly lately. Go back and honor her and make her feel that you really love her and then come back and I will hear you and answer you…”
The man that is after God’s own heart is a man who loves, honors, respects and considers his wife’s feelings, needs and requests. When the Lord sees that a man is loving his wife in the way that Jesus loves His church, He will bless that man in ways that he never imagined.
Rob Robinson.
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