My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:25-26). How do we glorify Him? For over twenty years, John Piper has argued that the Bible teaches that “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” That is, we glorify God when we can say with the psalmist, “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. So God went out of His way in Scripture to praise women’s spiritual insight and gifts, so that women could not be denigrated.God created mankind for a purpose: To bring glory to His Name (Isaiah 43:7). I think it’s because Scripture was written to very male-dominated societies, where the impulse would be to create a very male-centric religion. “Why would Scripture so commonly praise women, rather than depicting them as falling short? Was Scripture trying to say that women are more spiritually in tune than men are?” Gregoire asked. Although instances of husbands correcting their wives in the Bible do exist, more plentiful are passages where the wife is in the right in correcting her husband, she pointed out, citing the examples of Queen Esther, Moses’ wife, Zipporah, in Exodus 4, Pilate’s wife in Matthew 27, and Bathsheba’s confrontation of David in 1 Kings 1. She went on to explain that it is not scriptural for a husband to claim he somehow possesses superior spiritual knowledge to correct his wife to prepare her for Christ.

Some female readers were not so enthused, taking issue with his take on Paul’s words, reasoning, and choice of language.Ĭanadian author and blogger Sheila Gregoire commented on Stoudt’s article, writing Thursday on her website, To Love, Honor, & Vacuum: “If husbands need to ‘get her ready for Jesus,’ is she not ready for Jesus without her husband? Can Jesus not get her ready on His own? Is the husband ready for Jesus just as he is, but the wife needs his help to get ready?” He concluded that until Christ returns “husbands have the staggering privilege of getting our wives ready for Jesus, their true husband.” A kingdom where peace, however false, reigns.” Just like angry husbands, timid husbands are motivated not by their wives’ holiness, or God’s glory, but by preserving their own kingdom. But it’s also true that what doesn’t come out of the mouth proceeds from the heart.

“Silent types appear much nicer than their critical counterparts. But a more common tendency is for husbands to be passive and stay quiet, he said.

Even the most Christlike wives will sometimes need an honest, loving word to get back on course,” Stoudt said, stressing that husbands are not to correct their wives in frustration or harshness. We all need to be progressively sanctified. And loving them means many things, he explained, noting that at times it includes correction.

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