Nancy sees herself as her husband's garden: The Wilson Saga P/7

                                                      Read Part One HERE

In this post I will begin to focus on Nancy Wilson, the wife of Pastor Doug Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, US.

In Nancy Wilson's book "The Fruit Of Her Hands " she writes that a wife is a garden that belongs to her husband as follows:

Nancy Wilson: "As a Christian woman begins to see herself as a garden, she takes more eager interest in making it a lovely garden that her husband delights to spend time in."
Nancy Wison: "Of course a husband is never trespassing in his own garden, though he can be made to feel as though he is an intruder."

Nancy Wilson: " In many ways, the husband is a garden tender, and his wife become a source of great joy and delight to the husband as he spends time in the garden he faithfully tends."

My Comment:
The Bible nowhere compares the wife to a garden that the husband is to spend time in as her gardener. However, in John 15 we read of God as the Gardener. In this passage Jesus is the vine and every Christian wife is a branch. Such a branch is to bear fruit and may be pruned by the Gardener in order to be able to bear more fruit.
As for her bearing fruit, it refers to the spiritual fruit of the Spirit that we read about in Galatians 5:22

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control
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A Christian wife is responsible for he own life and for the development of such spiritual fruit in her life. It is not the husband's task to tend to the fruit for that is done by God the Father who prunes it as the Gardener so this Christian wife may bear more fruit.

 

Read Part Eight HERE