SUNDAY MARRIAGE DIGEST

BY AYODELE ADEOYE

If Abraham had not complied with Sarah's suggestion to have Hagar impregnated, it would have been a worse trouble for Abraham.

The story would have been;

It is you who don't want me to have a child!

It is because you can't impregnate a woman that we are childless. Etc

After Abraham obeyed her and the girl became pregnant, she was the first to cry out that the girl is disrespecting her because she's pregnant. This may not even be an outright disrespect, who does not know the difficulties and attitudinal changes that comes with pregnancy. Some women becomes violence during pregnancy, some become irritated, some become abusive, some get more angry, some shouts and nag etc. Of course Sarah was never pregnant before and may not know how it feels.

She blamed her husband for Hagar's attitude. She didn't count the costs of giving her housemaid to her husband before doing it. Her desperation to have a child didn't let her think well before doing what she did.

I blamed Abraham for obeying his wife to stoop low to having an affair with a house girl after God had assured him He will give him a heir through Sarah. My daddies, friends and brothers, our women are dynamic and weak emotionally. It is our responsibility to guide their emotions by the word of God instead of yielding to their pressure dictated by their fragile emotions. No matter how much you love her, don't bend the word of God to please her. The consequences will start from her and obviously affect everyone.

Adam who bent God's word to please the emotional desire of his wife learnt his lesson in a hard way. I therefore encourage every man to study his wife's emotional excesses and curb it with love and prayer.

Happy Sunday!

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