THE WIFE’S BASIC CALLING IN MARRIAGE is to serve as a HELPER AND COMPANION to her husband.
A close study of the duties of a wife shows that her tasks are enormous and range from serving as an amorous lover to her husband to carrying pregnancies, nursing babies, doing babysitting, laundry, cleaning and keeping the home beautiful, shopping for food in the market, cooking the meals for the family and guests, etc, etc.
When a wife is overworked from day to day, it affects her efficiency in the primary place of serving as an amorous lover and vivacious companion to her husband.
In eras past, many of the Patriarchs provided adequate helpers in their homes to make the domestic responsibilities of the wife very light; so that she had enough time to take care of herself, look young and beautiful and attend to her husband with full attention, energy and vigour.
As we can see in the third verse of our anchor scripture, one of the patriarchs of the past, Job, had a very great household. Of course, most of those people were his herds men, his labourers and their families but certainly many were domestic servants who worked for his wife.
You don’t need to be told that Job’s wife must have been a fresh, beautiful and yummy lady.
Overwork and stress has been, and is still is, the first eroding force that wears off the beauty of many tired wives.
The Bible tells us about the beauty of Mama Sarah. One of the factors that contributed to her beauty was a restful life. Like Job, Abraham also had a great household. Sarah apparently had several servants who exclusively attended to her so that she had enough energy to attend to her husband as helper, companion and lover without distractions. One of those personal servants was Hagar, her Egyptian maid.
In our time, many of the wives don’t just have a huge load of domestic work to battle with from day to day, they are also career women or business owners who have so much to do outside the home before coming back to attend to the children, the dishes, the cooking, tidying up the home, receiving visitors, going to church, and later in the evening when they’re worn and weary, here comes Randy Romeo needing his Pretty Juliet but she just isn’t in the mood. “No, not tonight! I’m having a splitting head aches right now!”
“WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”
It’s time to recognize the enormity of the wife’s task. The old assumption that the wife’s work is easy, isn’t tenable anymore. Infact, in some homes, these tasks aren’t just huge but simply daunting. A good example is a General Overseer I read about. His home was filled with guests EVERYDAY and his wife would cook from sunrise till sundown just because she had to be “a good woman and a minister’s wife”! The endless work soured her spirits and people misjudged her as hard and unfriendly. But it wasn’t so.
Every husband should endeavour to invest in making house and domestic work light for the wife. How? Here are some suggestions:
1) Invest in machines and devices that would make your woman’s kitchen work EASIER! Get her a better and more efficient cooking devices.
Invest in a dishwasher. Better still, employ a trained Chef to take care of cooking for the family, if God has given you the financial resources to do so.
2) Relieve your wife of laundry work by investing in a good laundry machine. Go further, if you can afford it, by employing someone to serve as housekeeper; whose duties would include handling the laundry machine, sweeping and keeping the home clean and taking out the refuse.
It’s not only top government officials or chief executive officers of private companies that can engage domestic staff in the home. You can also do it if you love your wife and are in the financial position to do so.
Finally, if you’re employing a domestic worker do so prayerfully so that God will guide you. And He will if you pray!!
Watch against employing a Jezebel who might become a snare to your marriage. Nevertheless, don’t let fear keep you back from employing someone. There are still many good people out there.
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