04/17/2026
"Man In The Mirror"
Week 2 Recap — As for Me & Mine | Grace Fellowship SDA Church
-------------------------------------------------------------
Proverbs 18:22 says he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
She is favor. She arrived in your life as a gift from God. And how you treat the gift reveals what you think of the Giver.
That's where Pastor Ralph Black opened this past Sabbath. Not with condemnation, but with value. Establishing first what she is worth before asking every husband in the room what he had been doing with her.
And then the mirror came up.
"Don't come and tell me, 'Pastor, when I married her, I thought I could change her.' Who told you that you could change anybody? Is your name the Holy Spirit?"
He reminded us that she is not your competition; she is your greatest asset.
That what you tolerate in your home eventually moves in and stays.
That your silence is never neutral. When you don't lead, something else fills the vacuum.
And then the line that stopped the room:
"A man who is too proud to hear correction from his wife is not the head of his household. He is the ceiling of it."
The measure of a man is not the size of his salary.
Not the strength of his handshake.
Not the respect he commands in a boardroom.
The measure of a man is what he does with the covenant he made before God, especially when keeping it costs him something.
Especially when love requires him to stay in the room when everything in him wants to walk out.
The measure of your love is not how you love her when she is lovely. It is how you love her when she is lost.
The mirror is still up.
Full sermon now on YouTube. Link in bio.
Week 3 — "Why Do You Hate Your Son?" — this Sabbath, April 18 · 12PM
Grace Fellowship SDA · 750 W Lucas Rd · Lucas, TX
🏠 Come home.
