Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
THE GOOD LIFE
Our God is a good God. And because He created us in His likeness and image, He wants us to be good too. He wants us to reveal His goodness. He wants us to be good wives and mothers. Oh my, sometimes we feel as though we are “bad” wives and mothers. We can fail so often.
But it’s good to encourage one another isn’t it? And our best encouragement comes from God’s Word itself. Did you know that the word “good” occurs 720 times in the Bible? It’s all about God being a good God and us doing good things. And many times this word is written especially to us as wives and mothers.
1 Timothy 5:10 tells us we must have a REPUTATION FOR GOOD WORKS. And what are these specific good works?
1. Embracing child rearing
2. Practicing hospitality
3. Washing the saints’ feet
4. Helping those in distress
5. Exhibiting all kinds of good works
This Scripture also tells us to DILIGENTLY fulfil all these good works.
Acts 9:36-42 gives us the example of how we are to be FULL OF GOOD WORKS.
1 Timothy 2: 10 tells us to DRESS ourselves with good works. We should be more concerned about doing good works than worrying about what we wear.
Titus 2:3 exhorts the older women to be TEACHERS OF GOOD THINGS. And what are these specific good things? I Know you know them but it’s good to remind ourselves, isn’t it?
1. To be self-controlled
2. To love our husbands
3. To love our children
4. To be discreet
5. To be pure
6. To be keepers at home
7. To be good and kind
8. To be submissive to our own husbands
Do you notice that all these things are to do with home and family? They are not only good things, but BEAUTIFUL things. The word also means “lovely and beautiful.” The Passion translation says the older women are to be “teachers of beautiful things.” God doesn’t us to do them in a skimpy way. Grudgingly. Or survival mode. No, He wants us to do them exuberantly.
Colossians 1:10 says: “Being FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK.”
Dear mother, you are DOING A BEAUTIFUL WORK in your home as you pour out God’s nurturing heart to your children and to the needy around you.
Be encouraged and blessed today,
Nancy Campbell
Artist: Katherine Roundtree
