Questions and Answers
Several times this question has come: “What do you do when your husband wants you to go to work and you still have children at home and do not believe you should give that responsibility to others?”
It’s a crying that many Christian husbands have slid into patterns of the worlds thinking. They are unwilling to assume full support of the family, a God-given assignment. Sometimes they have not the courage to stand up to criticism of women who are “only” housewives. Sometimes plain greed is the motive, sometimes it’s prestige, social pressure, ambition. What do you do?
- Pray, first of all. Ask God to open the man’s eyes to his true responsibility as husband and father.
- Be quiet, caste, reverent, gentle (see 1 Peter 3:1-6)
- Take the matter to your church. The pastor and/or alders or deacons should be willing to discuss this from the scriptural standpoint with your husband. It’s their place, not yours, to teach him.
- Do not be afraid. Trust God. He may have an answer you can’t even imagine. Take the risk of faith, one day at a time.
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