MONDAY, MAY 9, 2022
TEXT: Ephesians
5:22-33
22.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.
23.
For
a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the
church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body.
24. And
so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church
submits itself to Christ.
25.
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for
it.
26. He
did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by
washing it in water,
27. in
order to present the church to himself in all its beauty-pure and faultless,
without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
28. Men
ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves
his wife loves himself.
29.
(None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of
them, just as Christ does the church;
30. for
we are members of his body.)
31. As
the scripture says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and
unite with his wife, and the two will become one.”
32.
There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as
applying to Christ and the church.
33. But
it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every
wife must respect her husband.
(Good
News Translation Holy Bible)
TOPIC: ONENESS
IN MARRIAGE
Peter and Mary got married
about fifteen years ago but their marriage has been everything but cordial.
Mary has more time for her business than her family and Peter is involved in
extra marital affairs.
They live like tenants in
the same house and their love life has grown sour, which has affected their
children negatively. For this kind of oneness Paul talked about to be a
reality, the woman should respect her husband and take care her home while the
husband should love his wife and be a faithful and caring husband.
Crosscheck your marriage
against this passage and see whether the Lord is really happy with it.
QUESTION:
What are you doing to make your spouse enjoy living with you in marriage?
PRAYER:
Dear Father, please help me to do everything necessary to make my marriage a
blessing, in Jesus name, Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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