The Content Wife

 

If you want a sure way to make your husband despise you, just go ahead and continuously compare everything you have and do with other couples around you.  New cars, houses, clothes, jewelry, vacations......everyone must surely have more than you.  It is so unfair! 

And what about how much time other husbands spend at home or how much they do for their wives?  Oh look, he always opens the car door for her.  He is so caring and attentive to their children.  How did she get so lucky? 

You want to take it a step further?  Make a mental list of all the spiritual attributes other husbands have that yours doesn't.  Shouldn't your husband be more spiritual?  You could really be a Proverbs 31 woman if he actually "loved you as Christ loved the church" like he is supposed to.

Let's top it off with a pity party.  Don't you have to sacrifice so much?  You get up in the middle of the night with the babies.  You stay home if there are sick children.  Everybody in your home needs something from you all the time.  The housework is an unending job without vacation time.  He goes and does as he pleases!

Have you heard any of these?  Have you been the one saying these things?

Comparison is contentment killer.  You will be right on your way to destroying your marriage!  Discontentment is the beginning stages of budding bitterness.  Let me tell you from experience, if bitterness takes root, it is hard to pluck up.  It is a horrible road to go down!

If you want to be a blessing and crown to your husband (Prov. 12:4), then learn to be a CONTENT WIFE!

Contentment - a statement of happiness and satisfaction; fulfillment; peace

Philippians 4:11-13 

Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am,

to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. 

Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry,

both to abound and to suffer need. 

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

 

Please take note that I did say learn to be content.  No one is born content, it is a learned skill, just like walking and talking.  Through Christ, we can have the strength to be content in every circumstance in our lives.  We can have little and still be full of joy.  We can walk through trials and still be content.  We can serve our family and be content.  It is all about the attitude of our hearts.  We can control that, not our circumstances! 

 

Today, I would love to ask you to join me in a personal challenge.  Make a list of all the things that you struggle to be content with.  Be honest with yourself!  Then pray over the list for one week, asking the Holy Spirit to teach you to be content in whatever state you are in!   

I believe that the Lord is going to do a mighty work in our lives!

 

Be blessed as you become The Content Wife!