Husband Study Challenge: A Plan for Wivesنموونە

Have you ever been pegged wrong by someone who is supposed to know you well? For instance, has someone who’s very close to you made an assumption about you that’s dead wrong? Described you to other people in a manner that’s way off base? Or suggested something to you that they’re confident you will like … but they are sadly mistaken? Or have you opened a gift and seen something so not your style that you feel like the giver hardly knows you at all?

When that happens it stings. It feels like they don’t really know you. Our minds want to make sense of things, so it’s all too easy to take it a step further and assume that they don’t care about us enough to take the time to pay attention and know us. It can make you feel unloved. That’s because part of loving someone is knowing them.

Part of the way God loves us is through knowing us. In Matthew 10 we see that God knows even the hairs on our heads, down to the number. In Psalm 139 we see that God is all-knowing and therefore knows what we do, where we go, every detail of our physical being, our thoughts, and even our hearts.

God knows us intimately. He knows everything and despite all our failings, he loves us and counts us as worthy (2 Corinthians 5:9-10).

God is the creator of love and who we need to go to for love advice. It’s his love that we want to model. If we are modeling our love on God’s love, it’s clear that one component of love is knowing. One way to grow at loving your husband is to grow in your knowledge of him. One simple way to emulate God’s love is to work to know your husband well since knowledge is a clear component of love modeled by God.

God knows everything already because he is omniscient (all-knowing). We, on the other hand, are not omniscient. We have to work and be intentional to gain knowledge.

Over the next few days, you will study your husband as a way to grow in godly love for him.

Challenge: Before diving into the Study, take today to meditate on the fact that God knows you intimately and loves you deeply.

Prayer Challenge: Pray and thank God for being omniscient and for loving you despite your failings. If believing God knows you fully and yet loves you deeply is hard for you, pray and ask God to reveal to you today how he feels about you.