God's Instruction to a Wife

God's Instruction to a Wife
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husband, as to the Lord.....Husbands love your
own wives, even as the christ also loved the Assembly, and has delivered Himself up
for it....so ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: He that loves his
own wife loves . ( Ephesians 5:22, 25, 28 ).
In these verses God instructs a couple about how they should live as husband and wife.
God's instruction to a wife: Be in subjection to your husband. Being subject does not mean simply to obey
It means that you willingly conform yourself to your husband and to his personality and to his life. god does not demand that you jump every time he says "jump" Sometime husbans demand that kind of obedience, but that kind of tyranny is partof the curse of sin, not part of God's plan for marriage. What you are to do is bring your
thoughts and feeling and words and acions into line with the great reality of your life--you are your husbands
wife. That is an honorable state,and you honor it by joyfully submitting to him.
God's instruction to a husband: love your wife, as you love yourself. god does not tell you to lord it over
all women or to practice being the boss by ordering your wife around. He tells you to love her! That means honoring her (1Peter 3:17), praising her to all, considering her views and desire and feelings as though they
were your own, and even sacrificing yourself for her as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it. She
is to be so important in your thoughts and affections that when you love her, you love yourself.
Wives submitting to their husbands and husbands loving their wives is the route God has provided for
a couple to obtain the blessing of becoming truly one flesh.

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