If God places men in positions of leadership, he expects them to take their roles seriously and to perform them with integrity and grace. For them to show more interest in their own affairs than in those of their “flock,” and to become so absorbed with their own lives that they fail to serve the needs and interests of those placed in their care, will merit divine displeasure.

Every man who has married a wife has been invested with a shepherding role in her life by God. The man who uses his wife for his own purposes, demanding of her sexual favors, expecting from her menial service, insisting that she meet his every whim and satisfy his every desire with little or no thought for her own well-being, should answer the question, “Shouldn’t shepherds feed their sheep?” If he does not answer it now-he will answer for it later!

-Stuart Briscoe