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SWEET OR PRICKLY?
What’s your disposition toward your husband? Way's translation of Titus 2:4 exhorts wives "to be amiable and submissive to their own husbands." To be amiable makes for a happy and loving atmosphere.The dictionary meaning of amiable is "good-natured and friendly." This is a good translation of the Greek word that is used in this Scripture which is the word "philandros." It means "to be affectionate and friendly."
This is the attitude God wants us to have as wives. Instead, we often get prickly, irritated, and impatient with our husbands?
Ask God to take away your prickliness. Ask Him to fill you with His amiableness. Get into the habit of reacting with an amiable spirit rather than an impatient spirit.
The psalmist rejoiced in Psalm 84:1: "How amiable are thy tabernacles (dwelling places), O LORD of hosts."
Think of ways to be good-natured, friendly, and affectionate to your husband (and your children). That means taking time to stop what you are doing and look at him, smile at him, touch him, hug him, and kiss him.
Can you say Amen?
Have a wonderful day,
Nancy Campbell
P.S. I am busy preparing for Passover tonight.
