DEFINITIONS:
Behavior:
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; conduct; manners; carriage of oneself, with respect to propriety, or morals; deportment. It expresses external appearance or action; sometimes in a particular character; more generally in the common duties of life; as, our future destiny depends on our BEHAVIOR in this life.
DO MY ACTIONS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE GODLY REVERENCE FOR MY HUSBAND?
"Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." Proverbs 20:11
"Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king." 1 Peter 2:17
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:20
IS MY HUSBAND MORE IMPORTANT TO ME THAN MY CHILDREN, MY FRIENDS, MY RELATIVES?
"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Genesis 2:23-24
"And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh." Mark 10:8
DO I PUT MY HUSBAND'S NEEDS, GOALS, AND WISHES BEFORE MY OWN?
"For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." 1 Corinthians 11:7-9
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
"Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." 1 Corinthians 10:24
"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another." Romans 12:10
"Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." Matthew 20:28
(I must confess, that I felt huge conviction typing this one out.)
More to Follow
In Him,
Cysco
