Men, I am about to make your life A LOT better!
There is no shortage of leadership advice and suggestions in the world today. In fact, you get a lot from this website. However, when I think of the best leadership advice I ever received, it was related to marriage and being a husband.
In 1990, our church was conducting a revival. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, a revival was week-long time in the life of a church with its purpose being spiritual renewal. Revivals usually featured a guest preacher who was the nightly communicator.
The communicator for this particular week was Manley Beasley Jr. One evening he was speaking on the subject of marriage when he gave the best marriage (and leadership) advice I ever heard. He taught that when a husband and wife are in a disagreement, the husband should always back down, apologize, and let the wife win the argument – ESPECIALLY when the man is RIGHT!
Even though this seems counter-intuitive his logic resonated with me.
Manley shared this is what Jesus did on the cross. Jesus was right and did absolutely nothing wrong. He lived a perfect, sinless life. Yet He took all the blame, all the abuse, all the embarrassment, all our sin and paid the ultimate price of death on a cross so the relationship with His bride, the church, could be restored.
Nothing has helped my marriage more over the years than applying this principle.
Men, we also have a gift for naturally messing up and saying things that get us in trouble. When this happens, and it inevitably will, just say you are sorry.
The funny thing is you will not be shedding any new light to your wife or those closest to you. They already know you have messed up. It actually makes you look worse to cover up or justify your actions. Men, when you’re in a hole stop digging.
Some of you need to apologize to your wife right now. Even if you think you are right (and you very well may be), remember what Jesus did on the cross. When you do the pain and embarrassment you will feel will be replaced by the joy of a restored relationship.
Men, I told you I would make your life better. You can thank me later.
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