No Longer Quivering
by Lori Alexander from The Transformed Wife – Do You Have Godly Conversations?
Editor’s note: Lori is quoting Charles Spurgeon again and stretching his words on loving kind words to mean you must win your husband and others over by treating your husband lovingly all the time. How do you parse something to go from ‘Love one another’ – a simple and clear instruction to ‘Make everyone around you believers by how you treat your husband’? Treating your spouse lovingly is a good idea, but not by thinking this is going to convert everyone around you. Besides, we’ve seen what her ideas of loving are and they aren’t good.
Women are commanded to win their disobedient husbands without a word by their godly conversation as stated in 1 Peter 3:1. Philippians 1:27 states, “Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ.” The Lord wants all believers in Him to have godly conversation. What does this mean? Does it only refer to our conversation and what we say or does it include a lot more?
“The gospel is very loving. It is the message of the God of love to a lost and fallen race. Christ’s last command to his disciples was, ‘Love one another.’” If you are married to a difficult man, the Lord wants you to love him more than you love yourself. This shows a lost and decaying world the love of Christ. There is a better chance of preserving the institution of marriage for your children, for their children, and so on if you stay committed to your husband until death do you part. God created marriage as sacred and your goal should be to show others the sacredness of it, even through the hard times. This will benefit not only your children in ways that you may never know, but all those who are watching as you live out your life unselfishly and with unconditional love.
QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.
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