A woman’s role as her husband’s “helper” is not an insignificant assignment. To serve well in her role, a woman must be fierce. Not destructively fierce but beautifully fierce.
Biblical Marriage
For most women, every thought and issue is connected to every other thought and issue in some way. Life is much more of a process for women than it is for men.
If you look at a waffle, you see a collection of boxes all separate from each other. That is typically how a man processes life. His thinking is divided into boxes that have room for only one issue.
How are you to understand the differences between men and women? We like to think of them this way: Men are like waffles; women are like spaghetti.
Husbands can reveal God’s loving, self-sacrificing movement into people’s hearts by the way they treat their wife. And wives can reveal God’s invitation to be filled with His strengthening presence.
Only you know the best relational investments for your marriages. Thriving couples proactively invest in each other and in their marriages.
Choosing to invest in your marriage helps to strengthen the lifelong commitment that is foundational to your relationship.
Francis Chan discusses how having a marriage focused on a mission will require commitment and sacrifice, asking couples if their view of the future is big enough.
Serving your wife doesn’t mean you have to become a doormat and sacrifice your identity. So, what is Paul really saying in Ephesians 5:25?
Men can take responsibility even if they don’t feel like they have the skills, wisdom or ability to handle a situation, if they will simply align themselves under God.