The more sensitive instrument

In my first job out of college I sold Swiss made Mettler Balances. These sensitive instruments were used to measure grams 1/454th of a pound and even micrograms, 1/454,000 of a pound. Chemists and Gemologists used them to precisely measure amounts of chemicals for experiments and diamonds and rubies in Carat weights. Needless to say, you had to understand how to use these valuable instruments or if you ham handed them dumping a lot of weight on them without a thoughtful process, they were easily damaged.

1 Peter 3:7 says "You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered."

Where it says someone weaker, rather think about "a more sensitive instrument" as one marriage teacher explained, "wives are like your radar, they can pick up on people's feelings, and situations in a sensitive way that is oblivious to the average man."

If you've ever seen a young mommy carry around a toddler on her hip through a store pushing a heavy laden shopping cart for hours, you might doubt the "physically weaker" interpretation, but there is no doubt that they are made specially different to complement man, and they certainly have intuition and read situations better than us.

We need to understand this and treasure this for the value of the godly design and intent guys.

Let's honor our wives today, and work on that understanding part.

God’s Workmanship!

Do you want to be all God wants you to be? Do you feel like God’s workmanship as expressed in Ephesians 2:10? Watch this neat Christian Skit put on by the Skit Guys entitled Chisel Away and let me know what you think. Part of being like Jesus is the discipline part as expressed in Hebrews 12. When I think about this I remember an old football coach who used to shout, “No pain, no gain boys!”