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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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For today, we're continuing our mini series on three qualities of a godly husband.

And today is quality number two. He rejects passivity. So this one's kind of a different one.

Maybe not one that we hear a lot. So what does that mean, Dr. Kim, to reject passivity.

I know it can be a little confusing.

Well, I think it ties in what we talked about in the previous podcast, and that is the fact

if God gave men a role as a leader, that means you're going to be involved. You're going to be

active. And when you're passive, those things happen. And so I think when a husband is

passive, it just affects the wife. It affects

the whole family. And I think to reject that means that I am not going to be, I'm not just going to sit

on the sidelines. I'm going to get in the game. I'm going to be involved in my kids life.

I'm going to be involved in my wife's life. I'm going to be actively pursuing them. And, and, you know, the thing is, it may

some guys maybe think, oh, that's a lot of work, but, you know, there's so much joy that comes

in that. And the guys that really jump in and reject passivity, I think they're the guys

that look back and think, man, I don't have any regrets. I was there with my kids. I was there

when they were growing up. I was there

their stuff and their events and to help them through things and to hold them when they,

when they suffered. I've been there around my wife to encourage her and help her. And so if you

don't do those things, I just feel like you're missing out a lot. You're just missing out of really

a lot of the blessings that God gives us as a husband in a marriage relationship with her wife and our kids. Yeah, that's beautiful.

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