"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her."
Prov 31:38
Does your husband praise you? I know some times mine would like to strangle me. How we strive to make people we work with, family members, in-laws, friends, happy and yet we forget to make our husbands and children happy!
There have been so many times that I have put the needs of other people over my own little family. Is that biblical? No I don't believe that it is. I mean God did ordain the family before he did anything else. And I believe that your relationship with your husband should come before anything else (except your relationship with God) and we should stop trying to make our boss, friends and other people happy.
Think about it the next time you make your husband frown! I know I am going to.
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" Eph 5:25 Wives do you make it easy for your husband to love you? I know allot of times I don't.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
"Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." Eph 5:21-32
Everyone in the congregation tensed up when the pastor read his text because everyone thought that they were going to get preached at on how you are supposed to submit or love your spouse. The pastor brought out a different point that God makes in this chapter. It was about how Christ loves the church and how we are the church and how he loves us.
He made a great point on how if you were one day to just not come home and not call or even talk to your spouse in any way for a few days, and then just walk in the door one day how that spouse would feel. I mean they would be livid to not have heard from you in 3 or 4 days and then all of the sudden you walk in like nothing was wrong.
So often we treat God that way we just go and leave him for days or even weeks at a time and then just walk back into church like nothing had happened.
Would your spouse be mad at you? Upset? Maybe they would even think that you were dead.
What does God think about you when you don’t show up to pray to him or worship in His house? Do you even care? Would your spouse care if you did not talk to them for a week? I feel that our relationship with God is a lot more important than a relationship on earth. But so often we put God on the back burner. How would you feel if he did that to you?
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." Eph 5:21-32
Everyone in the congregation tensed up when the pastor read his text because everyone thought that they were going to get preached at on how you are supposed to submit or love your spouse. The pastor brought out a different point that God makes in this chapter. It was about how Christ loves the church and how we are the church and how he loves us.
He made a great point on how if you were one day to just not come home and not call or even talk to your spouse in any way for a few days, and then just walk in the door one day how that spouse would feel. I mean they would be livid to not have heard from you in 3 or 4 days and then all of the sudden you walk in like nothing was wrong.
So often we treat God that way we just go and leave him for days or even weeks at a time and then just walk back into church like nothing had happened.
Would your spouse be mad at you? Upset? Maybe they would even think that you were dead.
What does God think about you when you don’t show up to pray to him or worship in His house? Do you even care? Would your spouse care if you did not talk to them for a week? I feel that our relationship with God is a lot more important than a relationship on earth. But so often we put God on the back burner. How would you feel if he did that to you?
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