Fulfilling Heaven’s Destiny With Your Husband

By Bishop Wellington Boone

“. . . and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly]” (Ephesians 5:33 AMP).

What makes the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart one of America’s all-time favorites? It’s not only the self-sacrifice and community spirit of the main character, George Bailey. It’s also how the film portrays the way his Kingmaker wife, Mary (played by Donna Reed), esteems him, and loves and admires him exceedingly!

Take the rain-soaked scene in Bert’s taxicab as George, flushed with excitement on his wedding day, flashes the stack of bills that he has been saving up for their honeymoon. Suddenly, he notices something strange. Mobs of people are crowded around the door of his family’s Building and Loan company. It’s the middle of the day, but the doors are locked, and the customers can’t get in. It’s a run on the bank!

George leaps out of the taxicab, ignoring the pleas of his new wife, and runs to open the doors. With agitated customers pressed against him, he forces his way inside and finds frowsy Uncle Billy in a panic, gulping a swig of alcohol as he says distractedly, “This is a pickle, George. This is a pickle.”

Apparently the film’s villain, Mr. Potter, the banker, has called in an outstanding loan and Uncle Billy has taken all of the small firm’s cash to pay him off. When Mr. Potter puts out the word that the people’s money is gone, they panic. Shortly after George arrives, Mary comes on the scene, and that Kingmaker wife saves

the day! She says to the crowd, “Do you need money? Here!” And she holds up their entire savings of $2,000 that they had set aside for their honeymoon and their new life.

That Mary was something else. She loved George as she loved herself. She still had more surprises to come. While her new husband was using all of their nest egg to rescue the Building and Loan by giving all depositors at least a few dollars on their accounts to tide them over, she went out and carried out a plan. She decided to bless her new husband even more, even though he had almost forgotten her in the rush of the moment.

Mary enlisted friend Bert and some other guys to fix up a broken-down house in the neighborhood that was so bad George and Mary in an impetuous moment of their courtship had once thrown rocks through the windows. Now it was going to be home. Mary tacked up travel posters and placed rain buckets under the leaks. She even lit a fire in the fireplace and persuaded the guys to sing a serenade outside the window as soon as George arrived. That woman knew how to be a Kingmaker. She never complained about the lost honeymoon, not to mention the money! She found her fulfillment in fulfilling destiny with her husband.

A husband and wife are made to fulfill the purposes of God together. When a Kingmaker wife loves her husband, that represents the way the Church loves Christ. What really makes a house a home? Beyond externals and frills, what makes us want to be at home more than anywhere else? Having a home where love is, just like Heaven.

 Heaven on Earth. “That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth” (Deuteronomy 11:21 KJV).

As a Kingmaker, you can be a Mary Bailey. You can make any home into a place that is just like Heaven. You don’t need a 20,000 square-foot mansion or the finest furniture, because you create the environment that represents God’s Kingdom—a place of giving, forgiving, and love.

Life filled with love for others. “Live a life filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him” (Ephesians 5:2 NLT)