✝️💕In God’s created world, order governs every sphere.
In agriculture, the law of the harvest dictates that one must plant before reaping. In business, one must render a service or provide a product before seeing a profit. Nothing thrives outside of its established structure—and marriage is no different. True success as a spouse is found only when we align our lives with God’s design.
✝️💕DEVOTION
* For the Wife: Success lies in willingly submitting to the authority of your husband, honoring the order God has established.
* For the Husband: The path to success is loving your wife as Christ loved the Church—sacrificially giving His life for her redemption.
✝️💕THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
In 1985, God divinely used a Christian Leader, late Chris Enefola, to place Jay Adam’s book “Christian Living In The Home” in my hands. Author Adams’ soul-searching question for couples is one every spouse must ultimately face:
“Husband, do you love your wife enough to die for her? Wife, do you love your husband enough to live for him?”
Answering these questions in the affirmative—and daily living out those answers—requires deep devotion, dedication, and self-giving love.
✝️💕THE PRICE AND PRIZE OF SACRIFICIAL LOVE
Love never comes without sacrifice, and sacrifice often involves a measure of suffering. This is why many shy away from the self-giving love that marriage demands; they fear the cost. Indeed, the cost is often greater than anticipated.
For a wife, submission is an investment that requires setting aside self-will. It is much like the process of motherhood: it costs a woman dearly to bring a child into the world, yet that sacrifice unlocks the unique privileges and blessings of motherhood.
Similarly, for a husband, loving a wife as Christ loves the Church is a costly endeavor. However, it pays eternal dividends. This sacrificial leadership cultivates a wife whose heart is transformed, becoming as dedicated to her husband as the Church is to Christ in response to His atoning death.
✝️💕THE GREATEST TRANSFORMING POWER
Therefore, God’s commands—to the wife to submit and to the husband to love supremely—are calls to invest in one another. By doing so, you reap a mate whose life is changed by your love, because love is the greatest transforming power in the universe.
Wives, bear in mind that submission to your husband does not make you a “maid who bows and scrapes before him,” as some mischievously claim. Rather, it makes you the virtuous woman who works “behind the scenes” to help him become the great man he is called to be.
And husbands, loving your wife supremely does not make you a “woman’s wrapper.” It makes you a Christlike man whose love transforms his wife into the great woman she is destined to be!
💕❤️Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Reread this devotional piece just before bedtime and sincerely discuss it together.
📚📖✒️ Quotes For Reflection:
“Love your Mate thoughtfully and creatively EVERY NEW DAY.”(Anselm Ahman. From Lovebirds’ Devotional of February 28, 2026)
✝️ Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today and be saved!
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