💍👒💕Dear Husbands, to succeed in your calling as the head of your wife, you need to gain the right understanding of the kind of Love God has called you to demonstrate towards her.
💍👒💕Please, pay close attention.
💍👒💕 When it comes to your enemies, God commands: “Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you.”(Luke 6:27).
As for your neighbours He commands: “love your neighbour as yourself”(Luke 10:27). But when it comes to your wife, He commands something loftier but within your ability: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave His life for it; that He might sanctify….”(Ephesians 5:25-26).
💍👒💕And how did Christ love the Church? He didn’t begin by dying on the cross. No! He began by stepping down from His heavenly throne as God and going through the lowly processes of incarnation: becoming a tiny foetus in the womb of a woman and staying in that tiny space for nine months and being born in a lowly cattle shed and…..!
💍👒💕So loving your wife begins with descending from your “throne” of secular, religious, business or academic status and stepping into the personal world of your wife and giving a helping hand in the kitchen, helping with the baby, giving her a pedicure, running errands for her as the need arises, picking her Bra and Panties from the clothes line, and happily meeting sundry needs in her life.
💍👒💕In brief, Loving your wife is all about servanthood and service. It’s all about humbly pursuing the well being and happiness of your woman at your own expense!
💍👒💕As we can see in our anchor scripture: Christ made Himself of no reputation but took the form of a servant so as to be able to meet the Church’s urgent need for salvation and sanctification!
💍👒💕You can not truly love without being humble, because true Love is not puffed up(1 Cor.13:4), but chooses to be a Servant in order to fully serve the one that’s the object of his affection.
💍👒💕In your relationship with your wife, there’s the need to walk in Christ’s footsteps, if you’re going to successfully function as her Lover-Husband.
💍👒💕When you reject Pride and embrace Humility, there’s no service or gestures of kindness that you’ll consider too demeaning to perform for your wife when duty or danger calls for it.
💍👒💕Some of the causes of conflict in Marriages are: ego, pride and inflated perception of who we assume we’ve become. That is why you hear utterances like: “How dare you talk to me like that? Don’t you know whose son/daughter I am? Is it because I agreed to marry a wretched, good for nothing like you that you’re asking me to take the Trash out to that faraway dumping site? Well, I don’t blame you. If I’d listened to all those who dissuaded me against marrying you, I wouldn’t be hearing all this nonsense!” Such an outburst could cause a week long blackout of love in your union. But is it worth it? No!
💍👒💕Humbling yourself in your relationship with your Spouse can never reduce you. When Jesus humbled Himself and washed His disciples feet, did that in any way reduce Him?
💍👒💕When He humbled Himself, got humiliated, stripped naked, crucified and died for our sins on the Cross, was He in any way reduced? No! Today, He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and at His name all knees bow!
💍👒💕So, loving your wife as Christ does the Church holds only increase, dignity and blessings for you. And as you do, your love nourishes your wife and makes her a sweeter woman and lover to you! Because nothing nourishes, softens and makes a woman open up in marriage like Christlike love from her husband.
❤️💕 TONIGHT’S ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
Reread the devotional piece just before bedtime and discuss it.
📚📖QUOTES: “Throw away these two strange and negative attitudes: SHAME and SHYNESS. Love your man with ardour! Don’t wait for him to be the one seeking your touch, caresses, kisses, embraces and hugs. Rather, be the one that initiates these acts of romantic love. There’s nothing odd about a wife being the one that does these first. Strange Women do so all the time and are sweeping married men off their feet and into their bosoms.”(Anselm Ahman. From Lovebirds’ Devotional of October 18, 2024)
✝️ JESUS CHRIST IS CALLING YOU! COME TO HIM TODAY AND BE SAVED!!!
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