Ephesians 5:22-33 (NIV)__________________________________________________________
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church - 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery - but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Dave Branon shared about how a husband can continue to love his wife in a more princely way:
Listen - enjoy those tender times when she can unburden her heart without fear.
Love life - find ways to add fun to your marriage.
Lead spiritually - guide the way into prayer and intimate fellowship with the Lord.
I always love to see elderly couples who still hold hands together when they walk in the streets. It's such a loving and warming sight to behold. No matter how slowly they may be walking, they support each other, enjoy each other’s presence, and nothing on earth seem to bother them or take away their attention.
Yet in recent trend, the divorce rates of young couples are spiking up, usually due to excessive quarreling, no communication, or any other kinds of problems. Marriage even got coined the term, "the tomb of love". It's a sad fact that people no longer believes in love anymore.
In my opinion, true love does exist. All it takes is that extra effort from both sides, to listen to each other’s problems and to understand what they are going through. I’m not a love expert myself, but I believe that when God is in the centre of focus in the relationship, nothing is too big that He cannot handle.
Lord I pray for love and peace in all of Your children’s hearts. I know we are all precious in Your eyes and You prepared so much happiness that we can never imagine for us. Even though relationships with our partners may fail, as long as we turn the problems to You, You will carry our burdens as You have promised. For that, I'm comforted Lord.
Guide us and give us hope when everything around seems hopeless and irreversible. By Your grace Father, everything is possible. Nothing is too late. Let us learn to turn to You and seek Your counsel before turning towards our partners in senseless anger.
I rest my faith entirely in You Lord.
James 1:19-20 (NIV)
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Ephesians 5:33 (NIV)
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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