Today’s Devotion: As a couple, none is safe if one is weak in faith!
During the weekend, through our monthly family meetings, we learned that, as a couple, none of us is safe if one of us is weak in faith. Drawing from lives of biblical couples like Adam and Eve (Genesis chapter 3), Abigail and Nabal (1 Samuel 25), Job and his wife and children (Job 1), King Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kings 16), we see that one weak partner became a pathway for sin, for destruction of the family and its stand on God’s Glory.
Fortunately, we see triumph with some despite the creepy devil using a partner, a case in point is Job who stood strong even when his wife encouraged him to forsake God. However, the point is clear; a weak partner is a gateway for the whole family’s troubles.
To ensure safety and better progress in matters of faith and, by the way, in all other aspects of progress, we are asked by the Bible to be an encouragement to one another as couples. We are asked to teach, reach out, correct, and pull up each other in the spirit of love and care so that our faith and trust in God’s wisdom and provisions and will is a language common and understood by each one of us. This is very important. When you are the SAME, it becomes easy to work out various issues as a family!
Practically, we are to read and study the Bible together, pray together, and discuss family issues together so that at any one point in time, our position on important matters is the same for us both as a couple. Going back to our biblical couples, it is clear Eve’s position wasn’t one with Adam, Jezebel wasn’t as her husband, King Ahab, Job’s wife and children had a totally different life from Job, and Abigail, the beautiful and wise woman of the fool, Nabal, indeed had a spirit of discernment and grace, better than her husband.
As a couple, what is your position on important life matters, for example, faith, family, career or work, children, church, and more? And what are you (each one of you) doing to make sure your partner is at per with you on various aspects of life, of faith, of your family? God bless you all.