A Gift from God

           It is prideful for a wife to think that she when she is prudent is a gift from herself to her husband.   I have found that when I think that I am a gift, a gift from me not from God, I am relying on myself for my strength and energy, and that is not good.  But when I acknowledge that every good and perfect gift is from God, including myself when I am prudent, there is rest and peace for me, leaving what God’s Word says to be true and be only concerned with being pleasing to Him in every way by His power working in me.  
          A way that a wife can have a correct perspective is by focusing on being a giver.  A wife does not have to have a lot of money in order to be a giver.  There are lots of things every wife has that she can give that is not money.  A wife has lots of things in her possession, given to her by God that she can give to her husband, and they are time, love, care, peacefulness, diligence, work, and a safe place to rest.