A lesson I learned...

I learned an important lesson this weekend as a wife, to stop nagging and start praying. As a result of this, Sean got baptized yesterday. He made me such a proud wife for his decision to tell the church he is a Christian and getting baptized is announcement to the world of his decision and commitment to follow God.

Let me tell you the backstory, the day after we got married, my mom gave us two books, the Power of a Praying Wife for me and the Power of a Praying Husband for Sean. The book has 31 days worth of prayer for my husband, each day I read about a specific area of his life and then pray for that area ie work, me, leadership, etc. The most important lesson I learned out of that book is not to continually ask my husband to do something but to lift it up to prayer to God and ask God to take care of my husband in that area I was nagging him about. That area for us was baptism. We believe that after we become a Christian, we get baptized in complete immersion, we get dunked completely in a body of water. Why? Because that is how Jesus was baptized and we follow His example and baptism is done after we become a follower of Christ and is simply an act of obedience to God because He asked. About 1.5 years ago, I started asking Sean about his baptism, why hasn't he gotten baptized? This conversation continued and continued with the only result being hurt and angry feelings. Then I remember the most important lesson I learned from the Power of a Praying Wife book, stop nagging and start praying. I didn't let Sean know that I was praying for this act of obedience, it was simply between me and God. Then last September, Sean marked the baptism box on one of the cards that our church passes out each week. I simply smiled, told him I was proud of his decision and shouted a few thank you God and praise God for His work on my husband's heart to obey him in the act of baptism.

So as a wife, if nagging isn't work and when does nagging ever really work, start praying, it might happen the next day or it might happen a few years later but lift up your husband in prayer and watch God move and act in your husband. The results only are worth lifting up that request to God.
Tomorrow I will share the rest of my weekend, which was the start of two months of being a track widow but it was fab-filled with plenty of friends.

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