Husband After God: Drawing Closer To God And Your Wife is a 30-day devotional by Aaron and Jennifer Smith, published in 2015 under their own imprint, Smith Family Resources. It runs about 200 pages.
Worth saying up front, because this book gets miscategorized constantly: it is a marriage book, not a parenting book. The subject is your walk with God and your relationship with your wife. If you came looking for help leading your kids, this is not the title for that.
What is actually in it
Thirty daily entries. Each one gives you Scripture references to read, a reading of two or three pages, a prayer, a challenge to act on that day, a “status update” section, and journal questions. There is room to write inside the book itself, so it doubles as your journal if you want it to.
The challenge and the status update are what separate this from a book you just read. The challenge asks you to do something. The status update asks you to write down where things honestly stand. That structure is the whole point, and skipping those two sections turns the book into thirty short essays.
How long it really takes
Plan on fifteen to twenty minutes a day, not five. A two or three page reading plus prayer plus writing is not a quick check-in. If your habit is a five-minute devotional over coffee, you will either need to find more time or you will skim past the parts that do the work.
Where it comes from
Aaron and Jennifer Smith married in 2007 and had a rough first few years. They started writing publicly about it, which grew into the ministries Unveiled Wife and Husband Revolution, then the Marriage After God podcast and a long list of books. This devotional is early in that catalog and it reads like it: personal, plain, not academic.
There is a companion volume, Wife After God, built on the same 30-day structure for wives. The two books do not repeat each other, so couples who want to go through it together need both. Plenty of couples do it that way and stay on the same day.
Who it suits
It fits a husband who wants a structured month instead of an open-ended read, and who is willing to write things down. It fits poorly if you want theology, careful exegesis, or something you can finish on a flight. The tone is warm and encouraging rather than rigorous. If that style wears on you, thirty days of it will wear on you too.
Bottom line
A simple, well-structured month for married men who will actually do the daily challenge. You are buying the structure and the accountability, not new ideas. If you want it to work, put the twenty minutes on your calendar before you start.
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