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CHAPTER 4
ACCEPTING HIM AS HE IS!
AS HE IS RIGHT NOW! We want to be accepted don’t we for who we are; with our bad habits, hang
up, our fat, our imperfections, our temperaments, our forgetting to thaw the meat, without someone
being on our case. That is why we choose our friends sometimes, because with them we can relax
and feel we can be ourselves, and can be accepted and loved by our friend without criticism. So it
should be in a marriage. So let us do our part at least, to try to accept our husbands as they are
now. Remember we talked about I Cor 13 type of love in our last chapter. Love overlooks and hardly
notices when someone does wrong. That is what we want towards them. Prayer is our best
resource for changing our hearts and minds, so that this can occur in our lives. Asking God to show
us our faults and things above, then seeing them, it is easy to overlook someone else’s faults or
shortcomings or idiosyncrasies, for others have to over look ours.
(It’s the same with forgiveness). When we see how much we grieve the Holy Spirit each day with our
actions or words, or have sinned in the past (sometimes big time), and when we ask God to forgive
us of all the offenses and sins that we have committed, it is very easy to forgive others. We are all
such fallen creatures and need to give each other so much grace. We are all trying and doing our
best to make it through this life where sin reigns all around us. And we are all trying to live a
Christian life before the Lord to please Him, because He HAS given us the power to overcome and
become new creatures in Christ Jesus through the shed blood of the Lamb. But the rest of the world
doesn’t have this to draw upon, and their father is the father of lies, Satan, under whose dominion
they are under. So we must certainly understand God’s grace towards and extend this same grace
towards others. Right? Right.
Well, back to acceptance. They (our husbands) want to be accepted for who they are even as we
ourselves do. When we accept him, it shows that we love him in spite of the imperfections.
Perhaps personal habits annoy you and hard for you to accept. For examples manners, appearance,
temper, untidy, lack of courtesy and so forth. Or how he spends his time or money. But remember he
made it and our trust is ultimately in God.
Perhaps there are duties that you feel he should be performing like working around the house,
mowing the lawns, painting, being with the kids, or not involved enough in their training.
Perhaps there are social skills that irritate you. For example he brags too much, is the star of the
show when others are around, talks too much and bores people or drives them away.
Each one of us has our problem areas. But it is NOT our place to change them. All the nagging in
the world isn’t going to change them. All it will do is make them feel unaccepted, crushing their ego
and make him feel like you don’t really love him. This bring about insecurities and he feels
threatened, so he can become distant, withdrawn, cold or absent from your presence a lot of the
time. Now a wedge has built up between the two of you.
Continual nagging causes him to clam up or blow up. He will often deliberately do the exact opposite
of the thing you are nagging about in order to prove that he is the boss. He thinks of you as a second
mother, who is constantly telling him, “don’t do this Charlie, don’t do that. Don’t forget to…, and he
certainly can’t feel romantic towards his mother.
Thus resentment builds up and he buries himself in either his work or his hobbies OR another
woman. We can destroy his love for us, then you wonder why he treats you the way he does. He
treats you differently than he use to.
A man wants to think of his wife as very special to him, one he thinks the world of and takes pride in
giving her the world.
Hay, maybe we always burn the toast, or have terrible tempers and get mad quickly, and annihilate
them with our tongues. Maybe we walk around in rollers or stay in our bathrobes all day long, or
maybe we slurp our soup or forget to start the dishwasher at night so there are no clean dishes in the
morning, maybe when he opens the dresser drawer there are no clean socks or underwear because
we forgot to wash the whites yesterday. Maybe we don’t listen to them when they are talking, or
perhaps we spend too much money or use too much gas. Maybe we talk too much in public and
don’t give them proper attentions.
There are a thousand things that he could fault us for if he wanted to, but we EXCEPT him to
ACCEPT us for who we are (after all we’re the best thing that ever happened to them RIGHT? ha ha).
So let’s begin to see clearly. No body is perfect! We married these men and we had a choice in
doing so. THEN was the time to decide whether we thought we could live with them the rest of our
lives or not. Could we really take his personality, habits, character? All of these things should have
been weighted before we said “yes” I will marry you. But we have said “yes” and now we must be
willing to accept our husbands. To be joined as one with this man just the way he is. He does the
asking (after he has hopefully weighted whether or not he thinks he could live with your shortcoming
and faults, and has now come to the conclusion that he could) so he proposed. He accepted you for
who you are. Now you had the choice. So now you have come to the altar and said “I DO”. Do
what? Accept you exactly the way you are, as my mate for life, as my other half, as my lord and head
of our family, I accept you the way you are for better or for worse.
Hopefully the man you married is your best friend or can become your best friend. A best friend
listens to you without criticism, without rejection, accepts you on your good days and accepts you on
your bad days. You can be yourself. Can you do less for your husband? Can you accept him as
you would a good friend? The barriers will melt and go away and there won’t be enough time to be
together, once you have accepted him, there is no longer any need to nag and he will enjoy being
around you. His faults won’t bother you if you accept him and not be always trying to change him.
Then you can be free to concentrate on his good points, and believe me, he has them. We all have
our good points too. You will find that your love for this man begins to grow again, and even to a new
dimension. You’ll appreciate him for who he is and begin to admire him.
God accepts us for who we are, faults and all. Even though we don’t deserve His love and
acceptance, He still loves us. He has no angles, His love is unconditional. Through His power we
can love and accept others too.
You choose! The Bible says, Wives Love your husbands. If you’ve lost that love as God to restore it
in your heart. If you want your marriage to succeed, you must choose to accept him. Either to accept
him or live in resentment. If you choose to accept him, how do you start?
1st make up you mind to accept him just the way he is. By an act of your will, determine that you won’
t try to change him, NO MATTER WHAT. That is the Holy Spirit’s job, as we pray for changes to
occur in them. Some women don’t nag verbally but looks, sighs, body language, tolerating them like
martyrs for the sake of the kids, nursing her woes.
Tolerance is NOT enough. He feels incomplete, unworthy, and can’t love you fully. When he fails
and we all do, that is when he especially needs your acceptance. He’s already at a low point and he
needs you to build him back up again and encourage him to restore his confidence. So bite your
tongue when you start to criticize or nag.
Realize his home is his castle. He should feel free to do what he wants. Drape his clothes all over,
draw pictures on the walls, eat pizza 47 times straight. Nagging will only drive him up the wall and out
the door. Cater to his quirks and make his home a haven where he can run to, where he can feel he
can be king. Where he can feel he can relax and be himself. Do what he want and still be loved.
Look at his good side and all his qualities that you married him for. Think of all the friend’s husbands
your so glad that your NOT married to. Tell him of his good qualities and his faults soon cease to
annoy you.
NEVER compare him with other men! This is a great blow to his ego, even as we don’t like to be
compared to good looking women or movie stars that they think are gorgeous. Let him know you
love him just the way he is.
Let him be free to be the man he is, to do what he wants to do, it is the only way we can grow and be
happily married wives.
You are the One. In God’s eyes you are ONE FLESH. You are destroying your own self when you
do not accept part of yourself (him). God put two imperfect vessels, being, together to balance out
each other and to make one good whole. What he lacks you have and what you lack he has. So let
us set our minds to love and accept our dear husbands and to be well pleasing in the sight of the
Lord.
You might even write out a list of his good qualities and rad it often, especially when you get mad.
Thank God for each of these aspects. Pray for God’s richest blessings on them and their lives. Pray
for them when your doing things for them throughout the day. And finally develop your devotional
life. For when we are in the Word and in Prayer, all “the things of earth grow strangely dim in the
light of His glory and grace!”
ACCEPTING HIM AS HE IS!
AS HE IS RIGHT NOW! We want to be accepted don’t we for who we are; with our bad habits, hang
up, our fat, our imperfections, our temperaments, our forgetting to thaw the meat, without someone
being on our case. That is why we choose our friends sometimes, because with them we can relax
and feel we can be ourselves, and can be accepted and loved by our friend without criticism. So it
should be in a marriage. So let us do our part at least, to try to accept our husbands as they are
now. Remember we talked about I Cor 13 type of love in our last chapter. Love overlooks and hardly
notices when someone does wrong. That is what we want towards them. Prayer is our best
resource for changing our hearts and minds, so that this can occur in our lives. Asking God to show
us our faults and things above, then seeing them, it is easy to overlook someone else’s faults or
shortcomings or idiosyncrasies, for others have to over look ours.
(It’s the same with forgiveness). When we see how much we grieve the Holy Spirit each day with our
actions or words, or have sinned in the past (sometimes big time), and when we ask God to forgive
us of all the offenses and sins that we have committed, it is very easy to forgive others. We are all
such fallen creatures and need to give each other so much grace. We are all trying and doing our
best to make it through this life where sin reigns all around us. And we are all trying to live a
Christian life before the Lord to please Him, because He HAS given us the power to overcome and
become new creatures in Christ Jesus through the shed blood of the Lamb. But the rest of the world
doesn’t have this to draw upon, and their father is the father of lies, Satan, under whose dominion
they are under. So we must certainly understand God’s grace towards and extend this same grace
towards others. Right? Right.
Well, back to acceptance. They (our husbands) want to be accepted for who they are even as we
ourselves do. When we accept him, it shows that we love him in spite of the imperfections.
Perhaps personal habits annoy you and hard for you to accept. For examples manners, appearance,
temper, untidy, lack of courtesy and so forth. Or how he spends his time or money. But remember he
made it and our trust is ultimately in God.
Perhaps there are duties that you feel he should be performing like working around the house,
mowing the lawns, painting, being with the kids, or not involved enough in their training.
Perhaps there are social skills that irritate you. For example he brags too much, is the star of the
show when others are around, talks too much and bores people or drives them away.
Each one of us has our problem areas. But it is NOT our place to change them. All the nagging in
the world isn’t going to change them. All it will do is make them feel unaccepted, crushing their ego
and make him feel like you don’t really love him. This bring about insecurities and he feels
threatened, so he can become distant, withdrawn, cold or absent from your presence a lot of the
time. Now a wedge has built up between the two of you.
Continual nagging causes him to clam up or blow up. He will often deliberately do the exact opposite
of the thing you are nagging about in order to prove that he is the boss. He thinks of you as a second
mother, who is constantly telling him, “don’t do this Charlie, don’t do that. Don’t forget to…, and he
certainly can’t feel romantic towards his mother.
Thus resentment builds up and he buries himself in either his work or his hobbies OR another
woman. We can destroy his love for us, then you wonder why he treats you the way he does. He
treats you differently than he use to.
A man wants to think of his wife as very special to him, one he thinks the world of and takes pride in
giving her the world.
Hay, maybe we always burn the toast, or have terrible tempers and get mad quickly, and annihilate
them with our tongues. Maybe we walk around in rollers or stay in our bathrobes all day long, or
maybe we slurp our soup or forget to start the dishwasher at night so there are no clean dishes in the
morning, maybe when he opens the dresser drawer there are no clean socks or underwear because
we forgot to wash the whites yesterday. Maybe we don’t listen to them when they are talking, or
perhaps we spend too much money or use too much gas. Maybe we talk too much in public and
don’t give them proper attentions.
There are a thousand things that he could fault us for if he wanted to, but we EXCEPT him to
ACCEPT us for who we are (after all we’re the best thing that ever happened to them RIGHT? ha ha).
So let’s begin to see clearly. No body is perfect! We married these men and we had a choice in
doing so. THEN was the time to decide whether we thought we could live with them the rest of our
lives or not. Could we really take his personality, habits, character? All of these things should have
been weighted before we said “yes” I will marry you. But we have said “yes” and now we must be
willing to accept our husbands. To be joined as one with this man just the way he is. He does the
asking (after he has hopefully weighted whether or not he thinks he could live with your shortcoming
and faults, and has now come to the conclusion that he could) so he proposed. He accepted you for
who you are. Now you had the choice. So now you have come to the altar and said “I DO”. Do
what? Accept you exactly the way you are, as my mate for life, as my other half, as my lord and head
of our family, I accept you the way you are for better or for worse.
Hopefully the man you married is your best friend or can become your best friend. A best friend
listens to you without criticism, without rejection, accepts you on your good days and accepts you on
your bad days. You can be yourself. Can you do less for your husband? Can you accept him as
you would a good friend? The barriers will melt and go away and there won’t be enough time to be
together, once you have accepted him, there is no longer any need to nag and he will enjoy being
around you. His faults won’t bother you if you accept him and not be always trying to change him.
Then you can be free to concentrate on his good points, and believe me, he has them. We all have
our good points too. You will find that your love for this man begins to grow again, and even to a new
dimension. You’ll appreciate him for who he is and begin to admire him.
God accepts us for who we are, faults and all. Even though we don’t deserve His love and
acceptance, He still loves us. He has no angles, His love is unconditional. Through His power we
can love and accept others too.
You choose! The Bible says, Wives Love your husbands. If you’ve lost that love as God to restore it
in your heart. If you want your marriage to succeed, you must choose to accept him. Either to accept
him or live in resentment. If you choose to accept him, how do you start?
1st make up you mind to accept him just the way he is. By an act of your will, determine that you won’
t try to change him, NO MATTER WHAT. That is the Holy Spirit’s job, as we pray for changes to
occur in them. Some women don’t nag verbally but looks, sighs, body language, tolerating them like
martyrs for the sake of the kids, nursing her woes.
Tolerance is NOT enough. He feels incomplete, unworthy, and can’t love you fully. When he fails
and we all do, that is when he especially needs your acceptance. He’s already at a low point and he
needs you to build him back up again and encourage him to restore his confidence. So bite your
tongue when you start to criticize or nag.
Realize his home is his castle. He should feel free to do what he wants. Drape his clothes all over,
draw pictures on the walls, eat pizza 47 times straight. Nagging will only drive him up the wall and out
the door. Cater to his quirks and make his home a haven where he can run to, where he can feel he
can be king. Where he can feel he can relax and be himself. Do what he want and still be loved.
Look at his good side and all his qualities that you married him for. Think of all the friend’s husbands
your so glad that your NOT married to. Tell him of his good qualities and his faults soon cease to
annoy you.
NEVER compare him with other men! This is a great blow to his ego, even as we don’t like to be
compared to good looking women or movie stars that they think are gorgeous. Let him know you
love him just the way he is.
Let him be free to be the man he is, to do what he wants to do, it is the only way we can grow and be
happily married wives.
You are the One. In God’s eyes you are ONE FLESH. You are destroying your own self when you
do not accept part of yourself (him). God put two imperfect vessels, being, together to balance out
each other and to make one good whole. What he lacks you have and what you lack he has. So let
us set our minds to love and accept our dear husbands and to be well pleasing in the sight of the
Lord.
You might even write out a list of his good qualities and rad it often, especially when you get mad.
Thank God for each of these aspects. Pray for God’s richest blessings on them and their lives. Pray
for them when your doing things for them throughout the day. And finally develop your devotional
life. For when we are in the Word and in Prayer, all “the things of earth grow strangely dim in the
light of His glory and grace!”
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