Christian Couples:
Heirs Together of the Grace of Life

By A. W. Tozer

. . .Giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of the grace of life. . . . I Peter 3:7

    The Scriptures teach that the Christian husband and
wife are heirs together of the grace of life that they are
one in Jesus Christ, their Saviour!

    I suppose there are many Christian husbands whose
prayers are not being answered and they can think up a
lot of reasons. But the fact is that thoughtless husbands
are simply big, overbearing clods when it comes to
consideration of their wives.

    If the husband would get himself straightened out in
his own mind and spirit and live with his wife according
to knowledge, and treat her with the chivalry that belongs
to her as the weaker vessel, remembering that she is
actually his sister in Christ, his prayers would be answered
in spite of the devil and all of the other reasons that he gives.

    A husband's spiritual problems do not lie in the Kremlin
nor in the Vatican, but in the heart of the man himself - - in
his attitude and inability to resist the temptation to grumble
and growl and dominate!

   There is no place for that kind of male rulership in any
Christian home. What the Bible calls for is proper and kindly
recognition of the true relationships of understanding and love,
and the acceptance of a spirit of cooperation between the
husband and wife.

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.