Thursday 8 November 2012

RESPECT YOUR SPOUSE!

  Do you respect your spouse? In respecting someone love is always involved.         
For husbands: Love Your Wife as Christ Loves His Church (Eph 5:25)For wives: Respect Your Husband as the Head over You (Eph 5:22-23), there is always a thin line between being playful and being disrespectful.i have felt that thin line sometimes but God has always being faithful that i don't cross it often! Most of the problems in “so-called” Christian marriages of today is the husband fails to love his wife properly and the wife is not respecting her husband’s headship over her. Most Christian wives don’t allow their husband to be the man in the marriage. When we practice our God-given roles as husband or wife this is when we love appropriately. 
 We have to make up our minds and be convicted in our hearts and minds that we are children of God and therefore we MUST follow in His teachings and precepts for marriage, not our feelings or what others are doing in their marriage, or what they tell us to do.
We need to know what the bible says: a man NEEDS to love his wife (as Christ does His church) and a woman NEEDS to submit to and respect her husband. There is a big difference between knowing what the bible says and doing what the bible says, however.
We should not pattern our marriage on the yardstick of the world standard-Titus 2:12 "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world".
                                       Have Fun till we meet again!
 

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