Isaiah - Verse By Verse

Walk thru Eph #126

versebyverse | April 03, 2008 19:56

Thought:  To me, true, Christian love invested in a wife by her husband will always come back to that husband.

Question:  As a husband, have I loved my wife the way I love myself?

Scripture:  Ephesians 5:28 (NIV):  "In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself."

Christ wants to join Himself to a Holy bride.  Christ loves Holiness and wants to share it with all of us who comprise the church.  Everything Christ does gives of Himself to achieve that end.  Likewise should Christian husbands want to give all they can to the betterment of their wives.  It becomes self-rewarding automatically.  Husbands don't have to love themselves because they will be loved by themselves through the love they give their wives.  It will come full circle.  And if a man is uncertain how to love his wife, he need only observe how he cares for his own body:  feeding it, grooming it, protecting it, meeting its needs, resting when tired, etc.  The sensitivity to his own flesh ought to be extended to the wife so that he finds himself equally concerned, if not moreso, for her needs, her tiredness, her protection, her grooming, her food, etc.  In this way, the power of love redirects normally selfish concern outward to the mate instead of back into self. 

A woman is designed by God to be, by and large, a Responder to those around her, particularly her husband.  This is how the love given her will not end there.  It will immediately rebound back to the husband.

As the "two become one flesh" in marriage, so when a husband loves his wife he really is loving himself.  She will give back to him as automatically as the grass becomes green when watered.

Prayer:  Lord, our nation's marriages need Your help!  Please encourage our married men to love their wives "as their own bodies."  Amen. 

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