We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 3 (TMF:969)

Thursday, September 06, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 3 (TMF:969) - Daniel Litton
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       He wants to see her perfected in spiritual maturity, so that she is pleasing and perfect before the Lord. He wants to see her strong in her knowledge of the Word of God. Really, the husband is to love his wife more than himself. And the husband through loving his wife shows that he indeed loves himself. For if he doesn’t love his wife, he really doesn’t love himself, and really cannot truly love anyone in the case. Just as a Christian man does not neglect himself—he doesn’t neglect his physical needs or his spiritual needs—so he should do the same for his wife. Husband and wife should spend time studying the Word together, praying together so that they can grow closer to each other and grow closer to the Lord at the same time. The two have become one flesh the Bible tells us. And while we really don’t know all that entails, for the Apostle Paul said he didn’t even know, for he called it a mystery, the reality is that the two are spiritually one. That is why sex between a man and a woman is sacred, and is not something that is to be shared with anybody. And so, the summarize, each husband should show love for his wife as he indeed loves himself (see Ephesians 5:25-33, ESV).