The Overseer Husband 3

This is the day the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it. It’s another day to be alive and another opportunity not to waste. So we will share the truth of the word of God and pray that the living God speaks to us and we will leave this blog with valuable lessons in Jesus name.

This will be the last of the series on overseer husband and I believe that we have learned a lot and the Lord is working in the hearts of men to make them into the kind of men that He intends them to be.

1 Timothy 3:1-5

Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not mange his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)   

By the grace of God I will make this post a short one because I believe that the very important points have been dealt with in the last two posts.The ninth and tenth points are quite similar so we can just lump them as one.

Not Violent But Gentle, Not Quarrelsome: I want to believe that an overseer husband who is temperate, self-controlled, respectable, above reproach and hospitable has earned for himself the quality of gentleness along with all these that he already possesses. There are some men who when offended outside the home, come back home and pure their venom of anger on their family; so to say that their family becomes their object of frustration. Well what you are doing to yourself in ignorance is that you are maltreating and disdaining the favor of God for your life. No matter what the situation is outside the home, your home is not and should not be the dumping ground for your emotional outburst. You are the head of your home and the shepherd over them and your assignment is to protect your sheep, shield them and take care of them and not scatter them because of lack of emotional control.

The big of all the attributes of the overseer husband is the last one which says, “He must manage his own family well and see to it that his family obey him with proper respect.” This is God telling the shepherd over the household that he should take very good care of the sheep under his watch and ensure they display good discipline by obeying the shepherd over them. Jesus said in John 10:3-5 repeatedly that His sheep know His voice and they follow Him because they know His voice; and they will not follow a stranger because they do not recognize the voice of the stranger. This is the manner in which an overseer husband ought to relate with his family; as a good shepherd whose sheep knows his voice and follow him. Not like a cruel stranger.

A husband overseer is a man prepared and ready to do great works for the Lord. He is a man who has proven himself faithful in the small responsibility handed over to him and shown himself ready for greater works. If you have mastered these attributes in your small family unit then displaying them on a larger platform becomes a work-over for you. As we start this new year, I pray that our husbands will be overseer husbands and their lives will be vessels of noble purpose in the hands of the living God in Jesus name.