Marriage Series - Husbands Love Your Wives Part 1

Hello, I am Daneille Snowden, and this is Multiply, a podcast to encourage Pastors, Christian leaders and church planters. 

Ephesians 5:25 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

As I read this and have often studied this scripture, I observe the example of the sacrificial love of Jesus being challenged to the husband in the marital relationship. Sacrifice is not a popular word and action is it! Laying aside our own wants and desires to help and care for the ones we love is hard!

Honestly, this is something learned and is not natural to anyone. How does a husband love this way? Paul did help with that by pointing directly to Jesus as the supreme example of this love. Jesus could have stayed in heaven with His Heavenly Father. But He didn’t! He lived out a day-by-day life of discipline, humility, and even hard work. He turned the other cheek when He could have said, “No I don’t want to do this!” But He did – He focused on the entire population of men, women and children and walked through the path of persecution and death so we all might know what LOVE is!

I personally can say I was blessed as a daughter watching my father lay his life down for my beautiful mother. I too have a husband that sacrifices things as he only wants to simply make me happy and feel loved. He affirms me in my call as a wife, mother, and minister of the Gospel. It strengthens me to continue to do and even be even more! 

That brings us back to how a man and women in marriage are to be SELFLESS! They are to be servants who serve one another, bettering one another in all they say and do. Husbands, do we affirm our wives? Do we lift them up with words of encouragement? Do we help them with even the simplest of the day-to-day tasks, exhibiting the servant character of Jesus? Some wives become bitter because they do not feel appreciated, or even needed. But when they are loved in the fashion of how Christ loved the church, it builds them up to be even more of who God created them to be. A better wife, a better mother, and a better minister to others! Also, a better servant of God too; in her worship and service to Him.

Husbands, Jesus put the souls of all men and women before Himself; in so doing, may I challenge you as the Apostle Paul did to start each day to LOVE YOUR WIVES as JESUS LOVED THE CHURCH! 

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