Called To Do Him Good

We’re not only gifted to do our husbands good. Scripture makes it our responsibility as well. Just check out Genesis 2:18 and Proverbs 31:12 for starters.

Charles Bridges describes this wifely disposition:

“Her husband’s comfort is her interest and her rest. To live for him is her highest happiness. This course of disinterested regard and devoted affection when conducted on Christian principles, commends most graciously the ‘holy and honourable estate of matrimony.’…No greater glory could be desired, than that which is given to it, that it should illustrate ‘the great mystery,’ – ‘Christ and his church,’ the identity of interest between them; her trials his; his cause hers.”

Devotion to our husbands’ comfort goes against our culture’s idea of marriage, not to mention our own selfishness. But doing our husbands good is of great importance because it mirrors one half of that “identity of interest between Christ and the church.” (And yes, there’s another half for the guys, but that’s not our topic for today!)

We are to do our husbands good: not only for their sakes or to get something from them in return, but because we love our Savior. This responsibility is an honor because it is ultimately for Christ. And we can have confidence that God Himself will bless us as we seek to do our husbands good.

He’s the one, after all, who transforms our motives from “I do me good” to “I do him good.” If it weren’t for God’s grace at work in our hearts, the only “good” we would do our husbands wouldn’t be good at all, but rather manipulation dressed up as goodness. He’s the one who gives us the desire and he will help us persevere in doing our husbands good.