You are so WRONG!!!!!

My brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. -James 1:19 NIV

Listening and not speaking quickly could have saved me and my husband from so many arguments, also not becoming angry suddenly could have too!! How many times have I jumped down my husbands throat because I thought he was wrong or I knew he was and wanted to prove it to him?

He who answers before listening-that is his folly and his shame. -Prov. 12:13

Trying to prove my husband wrong even when I knew he was right tore him down. How did I not know this until now?  Is it because I didn't want to listen to God when He spoke to me about how I should be a better wife to my husband? Before I decided I want to be a better wife, mother, and daughter of God I didn't care how it made my husband feel when I did something. Now I do! God has convicted me in so many areas of my life but tonight all I can think of is James 1:19. Maybe it's because in the last few days my husband has told me that I am going to yell at him about something because he can expect that out of me if it's not done when I want it to be. This past week I have proved him wrong and I think it bothers him a little. He is so used to me becoming angry at him and speaking my mind that he expects it every time.

Through prayer and self-control (given from God I think) I have become a little better at showing my husband that I respect him. It tears him down when I yell at him and now I know this.

A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bone. -Prov. 12:4

One of my convicting verses! God convicted me on this verse around this time last year and at first I listened and though I was going to be a better wife to my husband. I wanted to be his crowning glory. HAHAHA Holly! Guess that didn't work out like I had planned because I went right back to getting angry and yelling at my husband. It's ok though because we all stumble but God is right there to pick us back up. He is always there to guide our every way. He says he will never leave us nor forsake us.

God put me back on track and I can only pray that my husband sees the new me and stops looking at me in the old ways.