Live With Understanding

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7.  I don't write long blogs so I generally focus on one scripture. My fear is misinterpreting that scripture. We need to interpret scripture with scripture. I do use Bible Hub to locate or read scripture. Bible Hub will list related scriptures that I generally read. This is what we are studying in Sunday School, actually it is Ephesians chapter 5 and 1 Peter 3:7 is a reference scripture that comes up for Ephesians 5:25: Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,  I asked a question of Barbara in an effort to understand her better. As our teacher asked us to do. What do I do that aggravates or hurts you? I have a bank account that I have had for 30 plus years. It is related to the company I worked at for 30 plus years. Barbara considers that my account even though she is on it jointly. In the past ten years or so I must have said something about some money she spent. She is very independent and has her own account at a local bank that she had to have to have checks deposited directly. I am also on her account. So here is how I relate this scripture to my wife. In her independent nature a few months back after retiring, she didn't have no money at the first of the month. Even though she is on my bank account as a joint account holder, she does not generally use my account. I was not worried about her having any money because I knew she could just use her card and get some if she needed it.  She will not do that. I had to learn to go to the bank myself and withdraw cash from my account and give it to her at the first of the month to carry her over until she received her check later in the month. She really hates to ask me for money. That is the way she is wired and I needed to understand that. So here a few weeks ago she forgot her card at home and had groceries and needed to pay for them. She tried to use her card on my account and it wouldn't let her. It said unauthorized user. So she thinks I took her off the account. I had to call the bank myself and find out what happened.  It seems every account was temporarily unavailable at that time period when she tried to use her card. The bank assured me her card was OK and the teller did see that she tried to use it but it was at the time everything was shut down. Living with your wife in an understanding way is to understand the way she is wired and to help her like I did when I got cash out myself and just gave it to her. Understand that she is independent and does not like to ask for money. Understand when a glitch happens at the bank like it did that day, how it will affect her. The reason this is so important is that our prayers will not be hindered because of a hurt relationship with my wife. God is watching how we treat our spouse, and it matters to him. This is the sort of stuff we are taught in Sunday School. I think I attend a very good church that understands strong marriages and families are not only the back bone of the church but for our nation also. Husbands may be the leader or initiator in the home but we are directly responsible to God for how we treat our wives. As I said before God is watching and our prayers can actually be hindered if we are not in a good relationship. On a side note, the company I worked for had every employee go through ethics training every year, and I remember thinking, this is stuff I was taught in Sunday School. God bless LVZ.