Ephesians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…
I’ve been a husband for over 35 years. And I have loved every moment of it.
During those 35+ years I have learned a few things about the responsibilities of being a good husband and what God wants husbands to do. I didn’t learn these things by my own intelligence or wisdom. God has taught them to me.
First, anyone can be a husband. All they need to do is find a woman and marry them. That’s it. They are now a husband.
But, being a good husband is a whole other story. So, let’s talk about that.
God has told us that to be a good husband, we need to love our wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her. That’s a pretty tall order.
Loving our wife the way Christ loved the church means that we put her first, before ourselves. It means that we treat her with respect and honor. It means that we don’t treat them as a piece of property.
It also means that we don’t look at them as a prized possession or a trophy to be paraded before our friends and family. We treat them as a blessing from God, not as a showcase piece.
If our wife is beautiful, then we thank God for her beauty. We don’t flaunt it before others in inappropriate photos. We don’t parade them in front of other men as a status symbol. We don’t smile as other men ogle them, knowing that they can look but not touch.
We protect the sanctity of their love for us by acting as their covering. It’s hard to do this if we’re more concerned with impressing our friends than we are with the welfare of our wife.
In these days of social media, it’s important that we be careful with what we post when it comes to our wife. We may be awestruck with their beauty, but parading it before the world only makes them look like objects of our pride on display.
This might seem like a bit of an odd message to some, but it’s extremely relevant and timely for the day and age that we live in.
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church. Amen
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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