Ephesians 5:32-33
"This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even
as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."
It must be a purifying love. Christ cleansed and consecrated the Church by the washing of water on the day when each member of the Church took his confession of faith. By the washing of baptism and by the confession of faith, Christ sought to make for himself a Church, cleansed and consecrated, until there was neither soiling spot nor disfiguring wrinkle upon it. Any love which drags a person down is false. Any love which coarsens instead of refining the character, which necessitates deceit, which weakens the moral fiber, is not love. Real love is the great purifier of life.
It must be a caring love. A man must love his wife as he loves his own body. Real love does not extract service, it cherishes the one it loves. There is something far wrong when a man regards his wife, consciously or unconsciously, as simply the one who cooks his meals and washes his clothes and cleans his house and trains his children.
It is an unbreakable love. For the sake of this love a man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife. They become one flesh. He is as united to her as the members of the body are united to each other; and would no more think of separating from her than of tearing his own body apart. But Here indeed in this age, men and women changed partners with as little thought as changing clothes.
The whole relationship is in the Lord. In the Christian home Jesus is an ever remembered, unseen, guest. In Christian marriage there are not two partners, but three and the third is Christ.
It must be a caring love. A man must love his wife as he loves his own body. Real love does not extract service, it cherishes the one it loves. There is something far wrong when a man regards his wife, consciously or unconsciously, as simply the one who cooks his meals and washes his clothes and cleans his house and trains his children.
It is an unbreakable love. For the sake of this love a man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife. They become one flesh. He is as united to her as the members of the body are united to each other; and would no more think of separating from her than of tearing his own body apart. But Here indeed in this age, men and women changed partners with as little thought as changing clothes.
The whole relationship is in the Lord. In the Christian home Jesus is an ever remembered, unseen, guest. In Christian marriage there are not two partners, but three and the third is Christ.
Amen!!
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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