Love and Respect - it Works!

Love & Respect - it Works!

Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV)

[21] Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

[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.

This scripture can sometimes get everyone up in arms for obvious reasons, however when the heart behind this call is brought forth it is a beautiful thing. While certainly the Love and Respect vibe is here as it should be, the greater good that comes from this truth is that when both do these things it creates a perfect union - a solid team if you will!?

Ladies let us keep in mind, that submitting is an act of respect and is easy to do when your hsuband is giving himself up for you as Christ did. Consider what Christ did? He DIED on a cross. He gave everything for the church (all of us) and our husbands are being instructed to do the same! WOW!

I’ll submit to that any day of the week!

Let the beauty of what marriage can be, BE in your marriage today.

Happy 30th my love! May 2, 2022