A Treasure From God

Guys, or I guess I would be more correct in say," Ladies", because women are 10 times more likely to read a long article than a man. Us guys just will wait on the Cliff Notes or for our wives to tell us about it. That, in a nutshell is what I'm writing about. Watching Perry Stone recently, he spoke on this very same topic and I found out I wasn't by myself, we agree 100%. I'm about to tell you ladies something that most men don't want to get out, but when you sink an anchor of emotional attachment into us, we will pretty much follow you like little puppies. That can be good or bad, which leads me to a subject that I discuss with a lot with my guys. You need to be very careful before you allow a woman to get close enough to sink those hooks in. She will be a steering force in your life, for the good or bad. Once you are on the hook, its often too late. The damage will be done before you ever realize what everyone else has been trying to tell you since you first started losing your mind. So, the million dollar question is how or why? The answer is because we need them and God knew it. Without them we would still be walking around with our knuckles dragging the ground.
If we go back in time, we could use any name in the place of Adam and I'm sure it would have still turned out the same. Put Steve in there and they would still be called woman.. Why? I'm sure knowing the male species and being part of them, it went something like this. Adam woke up and looked over and saw this beautiful creature laying there in all her glory and Adam shouted Whoa - Man !!!!! So, God said, Ok we will go with that.. We are pretty simple creatures. After all we did come up with cat and dog.. Deep thinkers I know.. But, I for one am grateful he made woman. Can I get an amen. Throughout history there have been many women that have been the downfall of many men. Men that seemingly had it all and threw it all away on a whim, pretty eyes and everything we weren't born with. But on the other hand, there are so many men that achieved greatness because they had a good loving woman behind them. The men had a good start with a sure moral compass when it came to dating and made good decisions when it came opening themselves up to love and allowing a lady to have that position of encouragement. We have heard the statement before, when a man was being honored for some great achievement, that I couldn't have made it without the encouragement and strength of my wife. That statement has more truth than we realize.
Every man that has walked the Earth has felt the impact and power of a lady. I don't care if your loafers float, we were all born of a lady. Even Jesus himself, although he never had a wife, knew the impact of a lady. Take the wedding for example. We all know the story of how he turned the water into wine. Have you really paid attention to the underlying story? Mary apprached Jesus and in todays terms was almost in freak out mode. The weddings those days lasted a week and it was a community affair. So providing food and drink for all guests was a pretty big deal. They run out of wine and surely the neighbors were going to be talking. So, Mary appraoaches Jesus and says something to the effect ( again in todays words ), I'm so glad you made it son, we are out of wine, I need you to do your thing.. Well Jesus looks at her and says its not time for me to show up and show out yet. I can see it now, Mary pauses, looks at Jesus, smiles, and turns around and shouts to everyone "just do what he tells you." Right there, to the creator of the universe, a mother tugs at her sons heart strings. Guess what he did? His first miracle, lol..
As Perry said, in that moment Mary showed the connection of her to God. Remember that Jesus had her blood in him but not of man. She was his mother and God was his father. He was connected and bonded to his mother as we all are. But if you look back in time through the old testament, you will see that God did not always answer mens prayers but you will find that he always answered the Godly womans prayer. Women are more tenacious and persistant than us guys. For example, in the parable of the woman before the judge, she keeps coming back to the judge until she gets the answer she wants. She basically pesters him to death until he gives in. But she gets what she wants. Women are like that when it comes to praying. They are much more intense and straight to it than us guys. We have to call it a prayer breakfast for us to get together and pray. Then it's all about what we are having and spending the whole time talking about praying. Women just say, hey we need to do some intersessory praying and they just get after it. Not saying there aren't good Godly men that are prayer warriors cause there are a lot of men that I look up to. But seriously guys, if my life or soul depended on a group praying, I think I'd put my future in the hands of the prayer chain at church. I could still be there waiting on my miracle while the guys are still frying bacon, where as the ladies would be wearing their knees out crying to God.
Whats your point Steve? My point is that when some of us guys get on our high horse and think we have a monopoly on talking to God we need to check the attitude. When we think we are all that and a bag of chips, again the attitude. If you think that women can't fill the postion you have at church, chances are she could and would do it better. I know how God talked about men being the leaders of their church and families and I'm not going against the big man for sure. But I think that has a lot to do with the men in that family or church. If the men won't or don't step up to the responsibility that God gave us, then it might very well be that the ladies have to. And I personally know some Godly ladies that make up for endless amounts of weak backboned pastors that are more apologetics than mighty men of God. They are more worried about hurting someones feelings and not being liked than they are loving the person and showing them the truth that will save their souls. These ladies wouldn't sit on Larry King and deny that Jesus was the only way to Heaven. Guess he was more worried about being politically incorrect to the Muslims than he was about loving them and showing them the truth. But, here I go and getting sidetracked. I get accused of that a lot.. lol
I, for one, am grateful that God looked down at us and saw how truly pathetic and lazy we can be as men. So much so he created a help mate that would inspire us, motivate us with the gifts God gave her, wrap us around her finger, and if need be nag us til we get off our rear ends and get busy. Might as well admit it men, we need them. Fortunately for us guys, God created this system to where they need us too. Or at least like us, he put something in them that wants us around. He created us to grow up, find a Godly partner, marry and become one. In that union is every blessing that we could dream of. If we are being the Godly fathers and husbands, leaders, that he called us to be then we shouldn't have to worry about having a lady that honors you as the leader of her family. Our wives, or future wives, are given to us a gifts from God. We are responsible for how we treat them. One day God will take them back and will look to see if we built them up, honored and loved them. He will want to know if we made them our treasure only behind him.. The love of a good Godly woman is a gift to not be taken for grant it. Remember this also, it's never too late to start. The farther you go along the harder it's going to be, but start at this moment. Humble yourself before her. Show her that she is a treasure and only God is more important in your life than she is. She can have more impact on your life than any CEO. She can guide you in a direction that will change your life forever. If things have not been great and you see no hope, try anyway. Take her to church and be a Godly leader for her and your children. Watch Fireproof. Stop listening to those egotistical jerks at work and become wrapped around your wifes finger again. She needs you to be a man, and I think you will find as you become the man in her life you become the man of her dreams. She will want to be the woman of your life. Be strong when appropiate and be gentle in her arms. We were given a great gift that day in the Garden of Eden. Show her how precious you hold that gift and how grateful you are for her. Most of all get on your knees, thank God for her, and ask him to help you be the man you should be. God Bless and go honor your wife.